Mourinho ally says Benfica knew of manager's exit a month ago | OneFootball

Eládio Paramés, a friend and former spokesperson for José Mourinho, spoke about José Mourinho’s move to Real Madrid if Florentino Pérez wins the elections, having assured that “for more than a month, the Spaniards had officially informed Benfica that they would pay the 7 million euros that would release” the coach.

“For more than a month, the Spaniards had officially informed Benfica that they would pay the 7 million that would release Mourinho; and for more than a week they had said they were sticking to that decision and would pay what was contractually stipulated — 15 million — after Florentino took office. In other words, did anyone have any doubts that the coach would not return to Seixal? No one!”, he wrote in his opinion piece for the newspaper Record.

This message from someone close to Mourinho ends up revealing that, at the very least, since the beginning of May, the Eagles knew about the agreement between Mourinho and Real Madrid. It is worth recalling that the Special One appeared in a video for Florentino Pérez’s campaign, while still under contract with the Eagles.

It should also be remembered that José Mourinho himself, on the eve of the match against Estoril, played on May 16, insisted that he did not know of any offer from Real Madrid. “My agent met with Benfica and told me, ‘I have an official offer that I’m going to send you.’ I said, ‘I don’t want it, I don’t want it, send it to me on Sunday’. As for Real Madrid, he never told me, ‘I have an offer that I want to show you.’ If he called me now to say, ‘I have an offer from Real Madrid,’ I would say exactly the same. Send it to me on Sunday, because on Sunday I’ll start thinking about it,” he said.

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