"The situation is very clear, Steven Gerrard is not for sale," Benitez said on Thursday.
With Chelsea and Liverpool in cup action and Manchester United idle, the biggest Premier League game of the weekend is the visit of fourth-place Tottenham to fifth-place Arsenal.
The Gunners, who are chasing a place in the Champions League final and beat Spanish club Villarreal 1-0 in Wednesday's semifinal first leg, are four points behind their north London rival with a game in hand. Three of the other games will have a bearing on the struggle to avoid relegation.
Last-place Sunderland is already sure to go down, and next-to-last West Bromwich Albion looks likely to join the Black Cats.
With only three rounds to go, the Baggies go to Newcastle, three points behind Portsmouth and Birmingham City. Pompey has a potentially easy home game against Sunderland, while Birmingham visits Everton.
Today's other league game is Charlton's visit to Bolton.
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