Bombshell! Benfica reach agreement in principle with Bruno Lage’s successor | OneFootball

Bruno Lage was fired from Benfica after the humiliating defeat against Qarabag in the Champions League (3-2). Rui Costa announced that the coach leaves his position with immediate effect and already has a planned successor: José Mourinho may return to Luz.

Lage left Benfica by mutual agreement with Rui Costa and the name of the Special One is gaining strength among the structure, there is already a principle of agreement to make Mourinho return to be the coach of the eagles.

During the press conference in which he announced the dismissal of Bruno Lage, Rui Costa was directly confronted with the possibility of Mourinho being the new coach of Benfica, but the red president did not want to reveal the name of the next coach.

"It's useless to talk about names, there's no coach at Benfica at this moment. The only thing that happened was the conversation with Bruno Lage. Now, we have our preparations so that on Saturday Benfica already has a coach on the bench", he said.

The Benfica returns to the field next Saturday, September 20, at 6:00 PM, in Vila das Aves, against AVS. The game is for the sixth round of Liga Portugal Betclic. The eagles will play again for the Champions League on the next September 30, against Chelsea, in London.

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