Lage’s lawyer hits out at Benfica director: Manager mistreated | OneFootball

Luís Miguel Henrique, the lawyer representing Bruno Lage in the legal case concerning Botafogo, revealed more details about the coach's departure from Luz. The jurist pointed out a "disloyal" behavior towards the coach and blasted the behavior of Mário Branco, the general director of the Club's football.

"The only thing Bruno Lage asked for, before personal vacation, was a document ensuring that until September 30, Benfica would not fire him. And he had no problem that, the day after the elections whether it be Rui Costa or another candidate, if they didn't want him, he didn't want any money from Benfica", he began saying on CMTV.

Luís Miguel Henrique shared more details: "I'm not Bruno's lawyer in relation to anything with Benfica, because I don't agree with anything that is being done. I only treat with loyalty those who treat me with loyalty. All of this was disloyal treatment. Before the vacation, Rui Costa gave the impression that yes. Bruno came back from vacation and after all no longer. And he was sure that, the following week in mid-July, things would go wrong at the first setback".

Next, he aimed at Mário Branco: "As for last week, I've never seen a coach, after the FIFA break, who didn't want to play with just one day of preparation and the director saying no, that one day was enough. He was going to the game with Santa Clara in that condition. I know that Bruno asked to play the game on Saturday and Benfica did nothing", he continued.

The lawyer speaks of "disloyalty" in the treatment of Bruno Lage: "Because of all this disloyalty, I don't agree with anything Bruno is doing to Benfica. I've never seen a coach being treated so badly, so much disloyalty and leaving 90% of the value of his contract on the table", concluded Luís Miguel Henrique.

Luís Miguel Henrique recently blasted João Gabriel:

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