Rafael Benitez is confident Pep Guardiola will tell him if he decides to take the Chelsea job, but has admitted Roman Abramovich is unlikely to do the same.
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Winning silverware barely scratches the surface of what is expected of a Chelsea manager by the most demanding owner in football, who reputedly wants to watch 'Barcelona in blue shirts'.
Benitez, who met Abramovich over dinner for the first time on Thursday night, said: "He's not desperate in terms of, 'We have to play Barcelona-style'. He wants to enjoy watching games.
"The way to enjoy is to see your team winning, and attacking and creating chances. The way that we create chances could be passing the ball or with a long ball."
He added: "If you score 10 goals and concede seven... I think he will be happy.
"I wouldn't be happy because I don't want to concede goals but I want to score a lot of goals. My job is to find this balance."
Benitez also questioned how realistic it was to replicate the Barca model overnight, adding: "You will not have this if you don't spend some time doing the same thing for years."
Something else Benitez will have to get used to is a lack of control over transfers, but he insists that is not a major problem.
"I can tell you 200 players I wanted to sign in my career and we couldn't," he said, suggesting he would happy to be given a list of targets from which to choose.
"I'm not someone that has no experience and will say, 'Oh, I want to do this and do that', and it's not sensible. You have to be sensible."
He added: "Eden Hazard, we wanted for Liverpool. We couldn't sign him. In our list, maybe he was here [top] but we have to go for this one [lower down]."
