Newcastle United are edging closer to confirming that Rafa Benitez will stay on as manager next season, Sky sources understand.Benitez signed a three-year deal to become Newcastle boss back in March, when he replaced Steve McClaren, but the contract is reported to include an option to cancel at the end of the season.The Spaniard was unable to keep the club in the Premier League, leading to doubts over whether he would stay, but it appears a meeting with owner Mike Ashley and managing director Lee Charnley on Sunday was positive. They talked for two hours after the stunning 5-1 win over Tottenham at St James Park, giving Ashley a first chance to speak to Benitez face-to-face since his arrival at the club.After the game Benitez said his heart was leading him towards staying on Tyneside to try and guide Newcastle back to the Premier League, and he admitted that fantastic support from the clubs fans was also swaying him. Jamie Carragher believes Rafael Benitez has a difficult decision to make Sources understand Ashley was impressed by Benitez during their meeting, with the Spaniard keen to find out what ambitions the owner has for their bid to get out of the Championship at the first attempt.Benitez is reported to be particularly keen to take control over the clubs transfer business before committing his future to the club. Benitez had this to say about his future after the win over Tottenham After beating Spurs, he said: I said I am quite open and I am quite pleased with everything, the staff, everything, now its just to be sure that we have to do what we have to do to be sure that we can go up if I stay here.They know, we have been talking. I have the same feeling as the fans, they want a strong team next season to be sure we go up again.The way and the ideas will not be difficult to have, to have similar ideas, but we have to sit down and make sure of everything. Benitez says the Newcastle fans are playing a big part in influencing his decisionAlso See:Rafas heart telling him to stayCarra on Rafas big choiceKrul up for Newcastle fightBenitez and Ashley meetAir Max White Online ., and Rudi Swiegers of Kipling, Sask., took sixth spot on Saturday in pairs at the NHK Trophy ISU Grand Prix figure skating competition. Cheap Air Max Store . Aduriz headed home Markel Susaetas cross in the sixth minute to open the scoring at San Mames Stadium. He bettered that with a long-range blast that went in off the goal frame in the 18th, and converted a penalty in the 72nd after Diego Mainz was sent off for fouling Aduriz with only the goalkeeper to beat. http://www.airmax2018sale.us/ . Kiriasis and brakeman Franziska Fritz finished two runs in one minute 55.41 seconds -- a mere 0.01 seconds ahead of Meyers and Lolo Jones, who likely bolstered her Olympic hopes by helping give USA-1 a huge push in the second heat. Red Nike Air Max Shop .com) - The women will also have a new champion at the Australian Open. Youth Air Max Sale . PETERSBURG, Fla.Its come too late for finals action, but skipper Greg Inglis believes South Sydney turned a massive corner when they pushed new NRL ladder leaders Melbourne to the limit.It took Inglis counterpart Cameron Smith to steal a 15-14 home victory for Melbourne with a cleverly-taken field goal from dummy half, having earlier sent the match into extra time with a 39-metre penalty goal.The result was cruel for Souths who were moments away from halting an eight-game losing streak, but instead slipped to 14th on the ladder with a 5-15 record.But Inglis was delighted to see the pride back in the Rabbitohs jumper as his team belied their 54-4 thrashing by Canberra last week with a performance more befitting the powerhouse club of recent times.I think we just turned a massive corner from where we were in the last two months or so, said Inglis.You know, it is heartbreaking but I cant fault the effort from the boys.dddddddddddd It just wasnt to be, it wasnt our night.Under extreme pressure going into the match, Souths coach Michael Maguire was clearly relieved, having faced suggestions that hed lost support of his players.I thought our boys really had a red-hot crack, said Maguire.I thought the efforts right across the park were to the standards that the boys have been talking about for quite some time, so it was pleasing to see.The players have definitely stuck strong together and I think that performance tonight is probably one of the best ones for this year, so we want to build on the back of that.We want to make sure that we obviously have performances like that in our next game, he added, as they prepare for an away trip to play the Warriors on Saturday night. ' ' '