Manteigas tears into Rui Costa, Benfica project a complete disaster | OneFootball

criticizes Rui Costa for the delay in renewing José Mourinho’s contract. Speaking about current affairs at Benfica, the former candidate for the Club’s presidency focused his main analysis on the Special One’s contractual deadlock.

“José Mourinho is hired and has a clause in his contract, stated by Rui Costa and confirmed by José Mourinho: ‘if I don’t win the elections, I don’t want the structure to be dependent on the coach, and the coach also has the prerogative to leave.’ Fine. In typical coaching contracts, if that is the condition, it is a clause we call conditional. From the moment Rui Costa wins the elections, that clause has to automatically expire,” he began by saying in an interview with the newspaper A Bola.

In that sense, the former candidate for the Eagles’ presidency pointed out the “mistake”: “It would have protected Benfica from what is happening. And it would also have protected the coach. There was such haste to sign an electoral weapon, a coach who would play the cross-cutting role of coach, communications director, defending Benfica against everything and everyone… Against refereeing. Mourinho’s figure defended the institution itself, became confused with the institution itself, which is a mistake.”

Regarding the arrival of the Special One, the lawyer described the coach’s arrival as a “problem”: “Mourinho was an employee and had to be protected like any other employee, benefiting from what Mourinho has that is good. That is the first major problem, it is a contractual problem. The clause had to be conditional, it had to fall away from the moment Rui Costa wins the elections, so that neither Mourinho nor the SAD would be left exposed.”

In conclusion, João Diogo Manteigas targeted the uncertainty on the part of the Luz board in recent days: “We saw José Mourinho publicly asking for a renewal, saying he was here, that he really liked being at Benfica, that he felt he was missing a renewal offer because he wanted to continue at Benfica. And complete silence from the SAD on the matter. There is no sporting project. It is a complete disaster.”

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