Rafa longs for Prem success
28 Jun 2008 - 17:00:26
Rafael Benitez believes winning the Premier League title with Liverpool would be the greatest achievement of his career.
The Reds boss has twice won the Spanish league title with former club Valencia and lifted the Champions League trophy in his first season at Anfield.
However, Benitez believes that snapping Liverpool's 18-year wait for English football's top prize would eclipse his previous career achievements.
"Winning the title would be the biggest achievement of my career," he told the club's official website.
"It's more difficult than in Spain because teams here spend big money.
"We will do our best. The key is not to talk about winning the title but to talk about doing a good job so we can be close, so we can be contenders.
"If we are close, I think that we can win the title."
Meanwhile, Benitez has revealed he is determined to only add players with the right mindset to his squad this summer.
"The key is to sign the right players with the right mentality - a winning mentality - competitive players, players who are desperate to come here to win something," he continued.
"That is the key for me. We have been analysing a lot of things this summer. For example, we were conceding a lot of goals last season from set-pieces.
"We need to know why because the previous season we only conceded six, but this year it has been 16. We need to know why so we can improve in these areas, but keep the team scoring goals in open play.
"We have been really good in defence for three or four years, but we need to improve a little bit if we want to be in contention."
