Nuno Catarino drops bombshell about leaving Benfica: biggest sale ever... | OneFootball

Nuno Catarino guarantees that Benfica could have sold a player for more than €50M on the last day of the summer transfer window

Benfica was close to selling a first-team player for more than 50 million euros. Álvaro Carreras left Luz for Real Madrid for the mentioned amount, but Nuno Catarino assures that the Eagles could have made an even bigger deal on 'deadline day'.

"We could have made the biggest sale of this transfer window on the last day of our transfer market," stated the administrator of Benfica's SAD, without revealing the name of the player in question, a task he delegated to Rui Costa.

"When we start an exercise, we start with a plan, a budget. Our goal was that what we made in sales would be used for purchases. We have a balance. The financial capacity exists and we matched the operations to seek that balance. This was the plan. It doesn't have to be a goal. It's the limit condition to balance the accounts," he added.

Nuno Catarino explained what he expects for the future and how the club from Luz intends to act in the market. "But when we reach the goal of 500 million euros in revenue, we can make more purchases than sales and keep the operation stable."

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