Marco Silva sets Benfica priorities and organises pre-season schedule | OneFootball

continues to work on preparing Benfica’s new season Benfica, despite not yet having been officially presented. The Portuguese coach is already involved in planning for 2026/27, and one of his immediate priorities is to define the schedule of warm-up matches for the coming weeks.

According to Record, the Benfica coach considers it essential to quickly finalize the pre-season friendlies, given that the team’s first official match of the season is scheduled for July 23. The aim is to find suitable opponents that will allow the team to reach its first competitive fixtures in the best possible condition.

Along those same lines, Marco Silva intends to closely assess all the players at his disposal when training begins on June 25 at Benfica Campus. It was precisely with that in mind that the coach recently met with Mário Branco and Patrick Dippel, seeking to gather as much information as possible about the players belonging to the Club’s ranks.

The former Fulham manager wants to first assess the club’s internal resources before moving decisively into the transfer market. Even so, the most urgent needs have already been identified, with strengthening central defense emerging as one of the priorities for the new season. A friendly against Santos also remains a possibility under consideration.

. After five seasons in the Premier League, the coach believes he is returning to Portugal more experienced and better prepared, seeking to avoid the planning problems that, at certain moments, marked the final stretch of his time in English football.

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