Benfica??? what? spend triple the money coming in and rely on a corrupt league to turn a blind eye? a model where they buy heaps of players every season and every now and then, one of them turns out to be a good player... as for the Benfica academy, you're talking about an academy that's spat out two players in over 10 years... Renato Sanches and Bernardo Silva...
If the league wasn't so corrupt we wouldnt be talking about Benfica... They would have been relegated and fined massively for years of corruption.
Sorry, my biggest pet peeve is Benfica... lol.
what we need is to invest in our youth and bring through future stars. we have a good academy. It's about time we started using it properly instead of sending away all these young kids, never giving them a real go... Let's look at our currently average team... add in Saponara, Aubemeyang, Darmian. it's already better and we wouldnt have had to spend 30mill on Bacca which means we could have spent it on a midfielder instead.
It's only now, now that we have no money, that we've started using the kids we have. Hopefully Montella continues this...
To add to this... We should actually stick by our youngsters, give them faith, give them the support to realise their potential... Who knows what would have happened if we had kept SES this year instead of sending him away. We might have started to actually see some more from him.
two more Benfica fun facts... 0 Benfica players in our Olympic team.
As for the Euro Champions - Renato Sanches is the only player from the Benfica youth team... Andre Gomes came from other youth teams then joined Benfica, and Eliseu has only been there since 2014(he's crap anyway)
Compare that to Sporting CP - 10 players (9 1st team players) from the youth setup
If the league wasn't so corrupt we wouldnt be talking about Benfica... They would have been relegated and fined massively for years of corruption.
Sorry, my biggest pet peeve is Benfica... lol.
what we need is to invest in our youth and bring through future stars. we have a good academy. It's about time we started using it properly instead of sending away all these young kids, never giving them a real go... Let's look at our currently average team... add in Saponara, Aubemeyang, Darmian. it's already better and we wouldnt have had to spend 30mill on Bacca which means we could have spent it on a midfielder instead.
It's only now, now that we have no money, that we've started using the kids we have. Hopefully Montella continues this...
To add to this... We should actually stick by our youngsters, give them faith, give them the support to realise their potential... Who knows what would have happened if we had kept SES this year instead of sending him away. We might have started to actually see some more from him.
two more Benfica fun facts... 0 Benfica players in our Olympic team.
As for the Euro Champions - Renato Sanches is the only player from the Benfica youth team... Andre Gomes came from other youth teams then joined Benfica, and Eliseu has only been there since 2014(he's crap anyway)
Compare that to Sporting CP - 10 players (9 1st team players) from the youth setup