Bruma’s agent denies any link to Benfica transfer scandal | OneFootball

Alamara Djabi lied about his age when he arrived at Benfica. The midfielder was registered by the Eagles in 2019/20 as being 13 years old, but he was actually 19. The player would end up leaving Luz in 2023/24, with Rui Costa as president, heading to Midtjylland. Catió Baldé, Bruma's agent, was allegedly involved in the move to Denmark, but now denies having taken part in the process.

"The Público newspaper of 08/09/2025, journalist Paulo Curado, in a purely malicious exercise, throws my name into the public arena regarding the investigation into two African players. The whole thing is full of inconsistencies and falsehoods. Let’s see: I was not given responsibility for bringing the athletes to Portugal; I was not given responsibility for registering players in Guinea-Bissau or for their respective legalizations in Portugal," began the agent of the Benfica forward, in a statement.

The agent showed himself to be quite frustrated, guaranteeing that "according to the journalist, in the matter of large commissions in player career management, Catió Baldé was not mentioned at any time as having received or benefited from any amount."

"The journalist, in his purely malicious exercise, blames me for having helped with the registration of players. It became clear that my name, once again, was used maliciously in a process with which I have absolutely nothing to do. The aforementioned athletes are not my players and I have never represented them. I have never dealt with anything related to these athletes," he added.

To conclude, Catió Baldé states that he will proceed with legal action against the authors of the investigation: "Strangely, the journalist makes me the center of the news/report, using my photograph, leaving aside all the other people involved—player agents and the players’ parents. An unprecedented act of malice. I will proceed with a criminal case against the newspaper Público and the author of the report. My lawyer is already working on the case. I will defend myself, as I have in the past, against these accusations whenever there is a problem related to these kinds of suspicions."

"I will fight to the last consequences for the journalist in question to prove all the accusations. Besides lying, he distorted what was said to him by officials of Clube Desportivo dos Olivais e Moscavide. He attributes to me the registration of 75 players at the club. In fact, the club told him, "we have already registered athletes from Seniors to the lowest ranks, over several seasons, 75 players from Guinea-Bissau." He simply distorted and lied," it reads.

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