It is not one he will find easy to win.
"It is brilliant", the man of the match Ritchie, said.
Benitez's side secured their place back in the top flight with a comfortable 4-1 victory over Preston North End on Monday night at St James Park.
Rafael Benitez chose to stay at Newcastle and rebuild after he was relegated with them last season. "But the fans have been wonderful with me", Benitez said.
But it remains to be seen if Benitez will be around to oversee that.
He added "In the end it was a very hard task because it's a very hard division and we had to keep going and pushing".
"Everybody knows they have a part to play, so it's important to be constantly ready and on top of your game so when you're called up you're ready to go".
"I think I will have to analyze a lot of things, but I'm really pleased here", Benitez told Sky Sports.
"We knew it was hard at the beginning". That's the reason why we made it in the end.
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"The fans are unbelievable, they deserve the best, the best football, so we did everything this season to bring them again to the Premier League".
Given the turmoil of the past few years, when the Toon Army supporters were often in open conflict with the club's owner Mike Ashley and many of Benitez's predecessors, the 57-year-old deserves great credit for keeping everyone onside.
Gayle, recruited in pre-season for £10m from Crystal Palace, has weighed in with 22, breaking the 20-goal mark despite missing chunks of the season with a recurring hamstring problem. Moussa Sissoko, Georginio Wijnaldum and Andros Townsend were sold for an eye-watering total of £68million as he embarked upon a radical overhaul to build a squad fit for the Championship. And the commitment he showed to stay (after relegation), that is the biggest thing.
Jonjo Shelvey, an England global as recently as November 2015, has featured in every league match he has been available for this season and been one of the team's main creative forces in midfield.
Meanwhile, the playoff picture now looks good for two USMNT players.
The Independent's Jack Pitt-Brooke has Chelsea manager Antonio Conte questioning the spending policies of other major English clubs. We have 88 points, and that says it all. Captain Kevin Nolan led by example, scoring 17 league goals from midfield, a tally matched by emerging striker Andy Carroll.
A right-back would be useful as no player has really held down the position this season, and a possible upgrade in central midfield might be useful too, even though Shelvey, Isaac Hayden and Jack Colback are all excellent players.
He's come from Real Madrid to manage Newcastle in the Championship, expected to win the league, expected to go up without losing a game and it doesn't work like that.
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