João Gabriel slams Rui Costa, calls Benfica's next boss a tenant | OneFootball

João Gabriel returned this Thursday to his LinkedIn account to criticize Rui Costa’s management, this time over the so-called “Mourinho case”. The former Benfica communications director criticizes the fact that José Mourinho’s departure to Real Madrid has still not been made official, nor Marco Silva’s appointment, at a time when, according to him, “everyone already knows who the next occupant of Benfica’s bench will be”.

In the post, he offered a critical analysis of the current situation at the club in red and of what he sees as an inevitability already well known in the media landscape, amid the uncertainty during the transfer window.

“Florentino Pérez published a video, generated by artificial intelligence, in which José Mourinho appears as an electoral trump card and the new Real Madrid coach. The technological fiction merely follows the reality we all already know", it reads.

The former official addressed the wave of criticism: "The outrage the video is generating is not matched by the outrage over (because there was none) the announcement, made over the last two days - across all media outlets and without AI - of Benfica’s new coach, when, it is also worth recalling, there is still a contract in force with the current one".

Rui Costa’s handling of the matter sparked strong backlash: "Everyone already knows who the next occupant of the Benfica bench will be. The name, the salary, and even the length of the contract are already known. All that is missing is the official announcement. It is clear that there are legal and bureaucratic procedures that require time. But perhaps, if Rui Costa’s week did not last 21 days, so much astonishment could have been avoided”.

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