Leonor Pinhão takes swipe at Benfica signing: unjustified spend | OneFootball

Benfica are willing to make a significant financial effort to secure João Palhinha. The Eagles are preparing to invest around €14 million in signing the midfielder from Bayern Munich, a deal which, in Leonor Pinhão’s view, is perfectly justifiable given Marco Silva’s influence on the process. The commentator does, however, criticize the signing of Jakub Kaminski.

“Meanwhile, if João Palhinha, as is being said, signs for Benfica, his signing will be down to the unique state of grace surrounding Marco Silva at Luz. The two, Marco Silva and Palhinha, have already worked together abroad. Benfica’s current coach wanted Palhinha at Fulham, and it was from Fulham that the player moved on to Bayern Munich,” she began by writing in the newspaper 'Record'.

For Leonor Pinhão, the reunion between coach and player may happen precisely because Marco Silva has once again identified Palhinha as an important piece for Benfica’s squad: “Now, at Benfica, Marco Silva has asked for Palhinha again and everything indicates that he is going to get Palhinha. He owes it to his persistence and the good work he has done, ‘forcing’ Benfica’s SAD into the financial effort that is the only topic in Portuguese football at the moment, as if there were no other subjects to talk about,” she added.

The Benfica supporter did, however, draw a comparison with another Benfica signing and finds it difficult to justify the investment made in Jakub Kaminski, especially after Marco Silva’s public statements about the Pole’s role in the team.

“So, let’s talk about Benfica’s so-called financial effort. Everything here works by comparison, and even for amateurs in these astonishing matters of capital, the spending on Palhinha will seem entirely justified to the same extent that the financial effort for the likeable Polish player Kaminski, who cost a fortune to be, according to what the coach himself said publicly, the third choice for his position, seems entirely unjustifiable,” she stated.

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