Got your attention didn´t I? As a very good friend on mine called it, welcome to the “silly season”. During the next few months Benfica will fire its coach, sell each player 3 times, and sign about 50 new players to the squad. Whats the point to all of this? Sell newspapers, lots and lots [...]

Benfica coach Fernando Santos gave a long interview to a Portuguese Tv station yesterday after the Toronto game. He made some good points and showed that he knows what he was talking about. He highlighted that one of the turning points of the season was Luisão´s season ending injury in Paris. He called Luisão a [...]

Sport Lisboa e Benfica tied in friendly match again Toronto. It wasn´t a bad game, its was the kind of game you would expect at this time of the season. I do however think these games are important, not only in terms of the money that they bring to Benfica, but more importantly because Benfica [...]

There are a lot of different arguments going around if this was a positive or negative season for Benfica. In as much as Benfica didn´t win any titles this year I would have to say it was a negative season. But was it really?