Benitez took charge of Chelsea as an interim manager in November 2012 after the sacking of Roberto Di Matteo but the Spaniard could not keep his job beyond the 2012/13 season. Former Chelsea midfielder Mikel recently revealed that the Blues dressing room at that time did not accept Benitez as their manager due to his past association with rivals Liverpool and how a clash with club legend Terry resulted in his ouster from the club., Mikel said, "No, we were not. We made that clear.
"Then we had the thing with JT where JT got dropped, JT wasn't playing as much as he wanted. Obviously, JT always played and Rafa came in and was like 'you're not going to play every game'. Obviously, JT wanted an explanation, 'why am I not played?' and Rafa didn't give him that.
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