Rui Costa slammed over Benfica leadership: Mourinho set the narrative | OneFootball

, businessman and former vice-presidential candidate for Benfica, believes Rui Costa lost control of the process and allowed the narrative to be driven by José Mourinho. He also stressed that "Marco Silva fits the profile, just like Rúben Amorim or Sérgio Conceição".

“Benfica handled it badly because they let Mourinho control the narrative and, at this moment, they are waiting, in a deadlock, when they have their first official match on July 23, a season starting on June 25, and no kind of direction whatsoever,” he began by saying, in comments to the newspaper 'O Jogo'.

In the same vein, the Portuguese businessman went on to list the mistakes made by the club’s leader: "Rui Costa, if he did not want Mourinho, should have gone to him on the Monday after the end of the league season and agreed on a zero-cost departure, because Mourinho did not want to stay either and could then have gone to Real Madrid to sort out his future.".

Asked about a possible future with Marco Silva, the former candidate believes that other names should not be ruled out either. "I don’t like talking about names, but Marco Silva fits the profile, just like Rúben Amorim or Sérgio Conceição. Benfica has to define its sporting policy and within this strategy, this sporting project, there are several coaches who can fit this profile", he stressed.

In conclusion, Bruno Batista made it clear that the Club should follow ideas created internally: "We cannot allow the opposite to happen, for a coach to be chosen because of his name, even because of his political potential to be useful to the Board by calming the members, and then he stays for a year, implements his ideas, leaves, and another comes in to follow his own ideas. These ideas must come from within Benfica, and that has not been happening.".

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