José Manuel Freitas lays into Benfica forward: complete miscast | OneFootball

The arrival of Jakub Kaminski at Benfica has not yet lived up to the expectations created among the fans and the media. The Polish winger has had few minutes under Marco Silva and, so far, has still not managed to be directly involved in any of the Eagles’ goals. José Manuel Freitas says the Club from Luz got his signing completely wrong.

"Clearly, Kaminski has no place at Benfica. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it was a complete casting mistake. I don’t even know whether Kaminski is a very good player, a decent player, or a footballer without the qualities to play for Benfica, that’s all he plays. He hasn’t played much. But he hasn’t played much because, and quite rightly too from my point of view, Benfica have two footballers ahead of him who are better than him," he said on the Now channel.

The journalist pointed to Gianluca Prestianni’s surprising performances. "Prestianni is the big surprise of Benfica’s start to the season, not because of the quality he has been showing, but because he is playing on the left when we all expected him to play on the right. So, I think Benfica rushed, in my view, into signing Kaminski", he said.

It is worth remembering that Marco Silva showed some irritation when asked about the Polish winger’s limited number of minutes, after being signed this summer for 17 million euros, at the press conference previewing the match against Estoril. "I’m here to make decisions for the team that I think are the best ones, that’s my role. I’ve already been very clear about what I expect from the player. Maybe you were expecting me to take off Prestianni to bring on Kaminski, because Prestianni has been playing a bit badly...", he ironised.

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