Pedro Sousa reveals top Benfica official could be on borrowed time | OneFootball

Bruno Lage will be dismissed as Benfica’s coach if Rui Costa does not win the Benfica elections. This statement comes from Pedro Sousa, who, on CMTV, argued that the Portuguese coach’s comments about Bernardo Silva and also regarding the transfer market do not leave much room for maneuver.

“I’ve already realized that my friends won’t say it. I will. The way Bruno Lage spoke today – what he said and how he said it – if the Benfica elections are won by Luís Filipe Vieira or João Noronha Lopes, Bruno Lage, a week or 15 days later, will no longer be Benfica’s coach,” stated Pedro Sousa.

“Without prejudice to something else. Bruno Lage is a Benfica member and will exercise his right to vote. He has that right, but that is Bruno Lage the citizen, not Benfica’s coach, who is the club’s highest-ranking employee,” Pedro Sousa concluded, addressing the coach’s controversial statements.

In the press conference previewing Benfica – Santa Clara, Bruno Lage took a jab at Luís Filipe Vieira: “This was the only transfer window [summer, the second with me as Benfica’s head coach] in which the president and the sporting management took the coach’s ideas into consideration. We talked a lot and all our work converged in that direction. I’m very satisfied with the work we did and I feel very good about that responsibility.”

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