Martim Mayer reveals who will be Benfica’s new general director | OneFootball

Martim Mayer admitted that the new general manager of Benfica, if elected president of the reds, could be "an international figure". The candidate for the elections next October wants to change the club's structure and also the method of promoting players to the A team.

"The most important thing is, indeed, the results and they have come, but there is more than just the results. Because one has to look deeper into Benfica's football and understand how these results were achieved, how they can be replicated in the future, what is right and what is wrong. And I think there is a lot that is wrong. And it continues to be necessary to change what is wrong", he said, to the Record newspaper.

Asked about the role of general manager, Mayer revealed: "I want to bring someone who, being 100% focused on Benfica's football and on Seixal, can implement a set of measures that have to do with the identity of Benfica's football. That is, without the pressure of short-term results. But it is necessary that it is someone who understands the club, who understands the identity of Benfica and who can think about Benfica's football without the pressure of the results".

"Someone who can make all areas of Benfica's football work towards the construction of this same identity. This involves a set of concepts that have to be implemented in the academy from the start to prepare athletes who have the quality to reach the main team. It also has to be focused on the future of the first team's positions and the succession map of these positions and have well defined with the scouting who could occupy a certain position. We need to know, within a five-year period, what talent we will have coming from the academy and what positions we will lack and will have to hire from outside", he admitted.

Without revealing names, Martim Mayer gave assurances to the fans: "My idea is that it is someone with proven experience in football as a coach and as a manager. Someone who knows European football very well as a whole. Someone who identifies, from the start, with clubs that operate with the recurring supply of players from the academy to the main team. Someone who has football experience with this identity. Therefore, besides Benfica, there are some European clubs that also have this type of characteristics. It will be someone who identifies with this model, this football philosophy. It could be an international figure".

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