Benitez kicking up too much fuss is 90% of the reason behind trouble at Liverpool, lets go back to LIverpool leading the league, then going on a rant about why lifes not fair to Benitez, rather than focusing on Liverpool winning. Making an enemy of the owners because they wanted 2 weeks to decide over buying Mascherano, a couple months before the transfer window, and only because they already had a trip planned in 2 weeks and just wanted to do the meeting face to face, which is incredibly common in the business world.
Benitez went out and did his first ridiculous press conference where he repeated the same thing over and over. Benitez created so many problems out of nothing, because he's a big baby who had started to take the club backwards.
Coming 2nd, ina year everyone else imploded only proves they weren't good enough when all the "big boys" make mistakes, thats something to be embarassed about not boast about.
Hodgeson will be on significantly less than Benitez, but thats not where the money saving comes in. Lets say they can get 50mil for Torres, Benitez would buy in some Spanish footballer whose potentially good, over pay for him, and then manage to get the worst out of the player by massively over managing the players(Which many many players under benitez have complained about), wasting the 50million completely.
Sorry but there's 2-3 clubs out there that can't sell an over valued played like Torres, as in, some club will pay 50mil for no reason for a guy not worth that, and buy 2-3 players to improve a weaker team and have a better overall squad. Benitez almost certainly would not be able to do that.
Hodgeson on the other hand has proven he's quite capable of taking a team not working, drilling them well, getting them working, and making money.
Remember that Hodgeson turned Zamora from a 2million cast off, to a 10million pound player, he take Hangeland from bargain player to someone who would likely command a 15million transfer fee.
I'd put money on Hodgeson getting players in, getting the BEST out of said players, something Benitez has never ever been capable of, and increasing their value dramatically, buying a lot of cheaper players who he see's potential in, improving the squad with little outlay and possibly making a lot of cash selling them on.
If you're not blinkered, and realise a Arab billionaire buying the club and wiping out the debt is a 100,000/1 shot, you'll realise Liverpool need to be a selling, not a buying club, and need to turn a profit from transfers and pay off debt with the money.
Liverpool as they stand right this second, need to pay off debt, thats it, thats the no.1 priority, Benitez is NOT the guy to do that.
........I wish 
