Manteigas reveals his first move if elected Benfica president | OneFootball

João Diogo Manteigas is one of the candidates for the Benfica elections. The lawyer believes that the club's management has not been done in the best way and is preparing a series of changes, should he be elected by the members as Rui Costa's successor.

"There are several, not just one. We must immediately implement the sports model we have planned, which is the model for optimizing the management of the team's market value, which is also applied in other sports. I am also interested in proceeding with the forensic audit immediately," he began by saying to Notícias ao Minuto.

Manteigas assured that "it's not a witch hunt, but a completely normal act": "When a client buys a company, the first thing they do is due diligence. We need to understand how Benfica has been operating over the past few years, what procedures they have adopted, with what criteria and how they did it. This is how we understand how the operation has been conducted. If we find something that is not working well, we believe we should correct it."

"It's about 25 years of management that I would say is very similar and where no major changes have been made. People ask: 'If you find something wrong, what do you do?' We have to present it to the Public Prosecutor's Office, just like Laporta did in the last Barcelona elections. A forensic audit with an initial consultant and then with another international consultant, and he handed the paper to the Public Prosecutor's Office. I don't want to believe that this will happen at Benfica, but it is a normal management act," he added.

To conclude, João Diogo Manteigas explained that he intends to go further and present new ideas outside the club: "Then I want to initiate meetings with the Federation and the League to understand some definitions that are being made now. We also have proposals to present to other SADs, such as changing the competitive frameworks, knowing what the model of audiovisual rights that the League presented at the ADC is."

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