Dalian Yifang boss Rafa Benitez has enjoyed a new swipe at Newcastle United management after his first week in China.

Benitez is already off to a winning start and posted his first impressions to his website.

He wrote: "I've had more meetings with the chairman, the president and general manager this week than I had in three years at Newcastle.

"They haven't been just work meetings, rather signs of respect in which we have been able to appreciate the difference and similarities in our cultures.

"As you can imagine the first bit of advice that you get from foreigners working here, or those that have worked here in the past, isn't that you should sign a good striker, rather that you should sign a great translator.

"A good translator can relate your ideas clearly to the players. The translator doesn't just need to know your language (mine speaks English) but also needs to know football in order to transmit the real meaning of what you want to communicate."