Bernardo Silva on Benfica memories as Man City contract ends | OneFootball

At the end of his contract with Manchester City, where he has been since 2017, Bernardo Silva – who has won yet another trophy – recently made a ‘complex’ comparison between the Cityzens and Benfica, where he trained and played only three matches for the first team.

“It was a long time ago. I remember there was a kid with a lot of expectations and many dreams, arriving at a big club like Manchester City, which was fighting for titles. My main goal was to arrive and win trophies. It’s more than I expected,” he began, in a recent interview with Sky Sports.

“First of all, I never thought I’d stay this long. When you arrive, what do you plan for? Two or three years? And then you see what happens, so I never thought I’d stay nine years. Seventeen trophies is, obviously, a lot,” he said, recalling his arrival at Man. City.

“When you play for a team like Manchester City, and you bring in great players, as Manchester City has done, expectations are very high. The same goes for Pep Guardiola and his name. People expected Manchester City to win, eventually, which is never easy, and we did it. We won a lot,” he pointed out, then referencing Benfica.

“Throughout my entire career, I got quite used to that. I did my training, for 12 years, at Benfica. It’s a club where you’re also always expected to win. It’s not something that’s strange to me, so when I arrived… I would say that, even here, the pressure is much lower compared to southern Europe. Personally, I think players have life much easier here,” he argued.

“If you want to play for this club, you can’t accept defeat. We know our opponents are very good, we know winning isn’t easy, but we don’t accept defeat. We work every day to have more good days than bad days, to win more than we lose, and we managed to do that for a long time,” he concluded.

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