Pedro Sousa: Player who nearly joined Benfica would’ve been key | OneFootball

Pedro Sousa revealed that Dusan Tadic was close to joining Benfica during the summer transfer window - as Glorioso 1904 reported at the time. The executive director of Correio da Manhã Rádio took advantage of his opinion slot on Record na Hora, on the NOW channel, to make the revelation about the Reds' transfer market.

"I mentioned the Middle East... Someone mentioned Arabia, but there are players in Qatar, in the Emirates. There is a player who is in one of those three leagues who was about to come to Benfica", Pedro Sousa began, referring to the Eagles' last transfer window.

Pedro Sousa went on, eventually revealing that it was the Serbian midfielder, Dusan Tadic: "Renan Lodi? No. He was offered to Benfica, he was a free agent, and was offered, pre-José Mourinho. It is a veteran player named Tadic, he was at Fenerbahce, and his contract ended".

"Before Mário Branco? No, he worked with him at Fenerbahce. He also played at Ajax, must be 33 or 34 years old. He would have been very useful playing on the left side," concluded Pedro Sousa, explaining that, in his opinion, Dusan Tadic would have been useful in Benfica's squad.

Dusan Tadic currently plays for Al Wahda, a team from Qatar. The player, who had a spell in the Premier League with Southampton, stood out at Ajax, where he was a key figure in reaching the Champions League semi-finals. In the last season, playing for Fenerbahçe, he played 53 matches, in which he scored 13 goals and provided 16 assists.

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