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Enzo is great! He just misses Florentino Luis and De Paul. 🙃

Kante Enzo Madueke/Fofana Felix/Mount/Havertz Sterling/Mudrik A striker

As I said before, he needs another guy to get the dirty defensive job on his side. Can't give him too many defensive duties, he needs more freedom. If that is the plan, it might take a while to get there completely. Maybe you should have gone for Marco instead of Potter. 🤐

For Felix would be positive.

Well. Good luck from here. Funny fact...Chelsea has at this moment our two most hot transfers in history, Felix and Enzo. Hopefully we'd meet in the quarter finals... wouldn't be ideal, but at least a sign we both went through. Haja saúde! ✌️

Of course. That's why I called it a cycle and that's why I said that's how modern football works. It's a pyramid. And even if this is not the philosophy of my clube or values of foundation, I don't think many people would mind if there's someone trying to push us to the top of the pyramid. But neither the club values and context would allow that to happen.

Of course we can't compete. We'll never be able to pay 10M£ of salary to a player, if we would, we had a squad like yours and we were fighting for the 3rd Champions, like you. Those 200M are worth to get some decent players and a couple more gems, that we'll use for another 5 or 6 months untill another Liverpool or Real Madrid comes and get them...it's a sad cicle. That's not what Benfica fans wants, but that's how modern football works. We have goals and ambitions as well. Losing a crucial player in the middle of the season is as rough as it would be for you.

Considering the time that we have been receiving these amounts, the future should be now. You can't just compete against financial powered clubs, with all the respect. This is where academy and sharp scouting becomes useless sportingly speaking, because you dig for talent and then others take them easily.

Superb quality of pass, superb peripheral vision and power of anticipation. Most midfielders take the ball wherever they want, Enzo puts the ball wherever he wants. He's not great defending in the last quarter, but with a man on side doing that role it won't feel. In the other hand, he doesn't seem to be very great character. Don't want to rise red flags, even because I think he just got where he wanted, but his behaviour on his process has been nasty, false and full of hipocrisy. A shame. But for what it matters, he's one of the best in the world at his age.

Oh yes you are! I'm sending my men to knock on your door this afternoon. 🤨

I'm not the type of person who feels proud on that. Even because Benfica is the club who made more money with transfers in the world in the last year's and we can't go after the round of 16 of CL...

Well, he will kiss Chelsea badge as well, just don't take it personally. Only us, supporters, kiss badges for a sentimental reason. Financially it is great for us, but there will be nobody to replace him. Live goes on. Benfica is bigger than any player.

And he will. You will be paying the installments to the factoring source.

It is about keeping the player. It is not all about money. To be fair, things seems too confuse this time. Nobody knows much about what's happening.

Agreed. Genuine love for the clubs is a supporters thing. Players come and go and we're always there. Sounds like silly obvious but it is also an absolute true.

Well he's not a pure striker. His best position is connecting the midfield and the attack, and then showing up in finishing areas. In Benfica he used to do that in a 4-4-2, being that sort of shadow striker. He even made Seferovic look decent.😅 But I understand your point. Even so, sometimes fresh minds in the team can bring an extra component and make the team grow.

Gotta help somehow. Hw would bring lots of creativity.

That's is part of an operation with 6 years now where nothing happen or was proven. The news relate only to the fact that they only want to keep the juridic process opened, probably just to clarify that they did not forgot. They can keep searching for the next 100 years and won't find nothing, in fact there's nothing left to search. The downside is that we'll have our name associated to this crap anywhere.

No. This one is a winger. Enzo replacement would be a huge problem as he became crucial in the team. A lot of the team process depends on his capacity to read and organise the game.

Talking about scouting, the difference here is the context. We're about to bring a 18 years old kid from Denish league, Schjelderup, he's pure talent, and I have no doubt that Benfica have no problems in make him a key player straight away. The reason why many of these kids prefer a step like Benfica, Porto, Ajax, etc is exactly that...because they know they will have much bigger chances of playing at a much higher level and more consistently than moving to a team like yours and ending up being loaned because the competition for a position is huge. But things seems to be changing now. The Di Marias, Oblaks we used to get with 16, 17, 18 years old are moving more and more regularly to the bigger ones from source.

Did not offer to Benfica, it was told to Enzo. That's what caused the pissing. Rui Costa in fact, was open to negotiate those 127M. But then Chelsea came back with a different offer again.

Doesn't have to happen if there's only adults dealing with this. Both sides just need to learn from all this for future negotiations. It's not convenient for Benfica either to break relationships with anyone.

Maybe too late, as I know Rui Costa. If Chelsea got the information from the beginning that you would only get the player by paying the clause, you shouldn't promised the player you would pay the clause and then try to negotiate for a lower fee. That made Enzo unstable, made him commit mistakes and to have a bad behaviour, and made Rui Costa get pissed. Its all a mess.

Mate, the market is mad. MAD! Enzo is an amazing project of player, but nowhere in the world he worth's 120 milion. This type of clause it's just to protect the team from loosing major elements, like Enzo, and avoid clubs to even try to negotiate, which was exactly what Chelsea tried to do. Your department could have been a bit more cleaver and had reserved Enzo for summer in a lower fee. That's exactly how you got Ramires from us in 2010.