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Published 17:49 22 Apr 2016 BST
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In a recently serialised segment of his brilliantly-titled autobiography - A Pole in Our Goal - in the Liverpool Echo, Dudek admits he wanted to punch Benitez in the face after the future Newcastle manager refused to allow him join FC Koln on loan, before deciding punching a Champions League-winning manager might be a bad look.
'He said, "I will be honest with you, I am not interested in loaning you. If they come back today to buy you, they need to double their offer as this is the last day of the transfer window.” I was furious with him, absolutely fuming, and in my head I could hear a devilish voice saying ‘punch him in the face – punch him in the face and he’ll let you go to Germany’. 'To be completely honest, I genuinely considered punching Rafa in the face. Then the consequences of doing so flashed through my mind. Would he let me go? Or would it just lead to a massive media scandal? Surely I couldn’t stay if I gave him a smack? 'I don’t know how, but I managed to stop myself. Punching a Liverpool manager who had won the European Cup only a few months earlier wouldn’t have looked too good on the CV I guess, but I was still angry.'
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