Beast King Costa

Chapter 284 The Law of Survival
After Guillermo Franco pressed forward, Nelson was the happiest at Benfica's right back position.

In the game against Villarreal, what Nelson is most looking forward to is to teach Guillermo Franco a lesson - aren't you a tough talker?Then see how hard you play football!
For the time being, however, Guillermo Franco's side doesn't have many opportunities to hold the ball.

The ball was mainly sent to the center by Matias Fernandez.

After all, the striker of the "Yellow Submarine" is none other than Diego Forlan, their striker in the middle!

Diego Forlan was in the prime of his career at this time.

The 27-year-old Diego Forlan is at the peak level in terms of physical condition, game experience, mentality, and technical ability.

Although Diego Forlan is not as tall as he is, and his physical confrontation is not top-notch, he is still able to hold the ball with ease under the double-teaming of Louisson and David Louis. The gaps in the middle of Louis are constantly interspersed.

This made David Louis a little uneasy.

It was true that Diego Forlan, the Uruguayan international, was underestimated before.

Now that the game was over, David Luiz realized that he was still too young.

Diego Forlan's left and right feet are too balanced. Whether he is holding the ball with his left foot or his right foot, he can pose a threat to Benfica's goal.

The most important thing is that Louison and David Luiz can't focus on which side of Diego Forlan, and they don't dare to stand too close to each other for fear of giving Diego Forlan a kick. Space.

However, in the 8th minute of the game, Diego Forlan was still in Benfica's big penalty area, twirling around, holding the ball to create a shooting space, and shooting directly!

This time, Quim finally played the role of a starting goalkeeper.

He flew over the far post and saved Diego Forlán's shot past the baseline!
Turn the danger into a breeze!

corner kick!

Villarreal doesn't have a particularly prominent high point, and they can't take a corner kick directly into the penalty area like other teams.

Mathias Fernandez takes a tactical corner to Bruno Soriano.

After Bruno Soriano held the ball, he cautiously advanced from the right wing, pretending to spike the ball toward the baseline.

However, Leonardo Bastos on the left wing was still very stable and was not swayed by the feint at the feet of Bruno Soriano.

Seeing that there was no way to break through the penalty area from outside the Benfica penalty area, Bruno Fernandez did not force it. He passed the ball back to the feet of Matias Fernandez in the center.

However, Mathias Fernandez was at the top of the penalty area and passed directly into the Benfica penalty area.

Villarreal did not have a high point in the penalty area to grab the first penalty kick. The ball was directly pushed out by Luizon, the main defender of the Brazilian national team, and Villarreal's attack To temporarily resolve.

"No wonder..."

Rui Costa, standing next to Fernando Santos, laughed: "There were a lot of voices saying before that Pellegrini's Chilean fellow Matias Fernandez pulled the ceiling down on the 'Yellow Submarine' - — There is no high point in the penalty area, and the high ball is sent directly into the penalty area, which is simply sending it over the heads of our central defenders."

"Yes! If Villarreal adopts this offensive style, we really don't have to worry..."

Fernando Santos still has a serious face: "What I am most afraid of is the connection between Riquelme and Diego Forlan. Riquelme's level of sending the ball is too high, and Diego Forlan is in the penalty area. With his shooting skills, scoring goals is too easy."

"Coach Santos, it seems that you really like Diego Forlan?"

"Yes!"

Fernando Santos revealed in a low voice: "Before signing with Benfica, I handed over to Chairman Felipe Vieira the list of intentional players, and there were two players, Diego Forlán and Riquelme. Villa Real executives are willing to let Riquelme go, but Riquelme is unwilling to come to Portugal. He tends to return to Argentina to play football earlier. As for Diego Forlan, Villarreal executives said it is not for sale. "

Speaking of this, Fernando Santos was quite helpless: "Even if Villarreal's top management is willing to let him go, we Benfica can't get it. Too many European giants are interested in Diego Forlan. The asking price is even higher. It has already reached more than 3000 million euros. Our club’s current financial situation certainly cannot accept such a high price.”

"More than 3000 million euros!"

Rui Costa was a little stunned, but then he nodded to express his understanding: "That is indeed a pity. The current financial situation of the club is definitely unacceptable for this price."

Although Benfica is one of the three giants in the Portuguese Super League, Benfica's financial situation has always been mediocre, and it can even be said that it is surviving.

The high wages in the team, the signing fee for new players, the transfer fee, the training fee paid by the youth team to dig out "little monsters", the huge youth training system, the maintenance expenses of the scouting system...

Although Benfica's annual financial income is quite good, they are basically invested in operations, and even basically need to borrow money every year.

When the debt is due, sell the main players to fill in the number, and then continue to borrow money to other teams to tap potential "little monsters", cultivate "little monsters", and sell people when they are trained to become stars...

Basically, this is the flow cycle of buying "little demons" and selling "cores".

As the saying goes, "an iron-clad camp and a fleet of soldiers" are basically the survival rules for clubs that are not world-class giants.

Like the rival Porto in the league, after winning the UEFA Champions League as a dark horse, they sold people aggressively, even the meritorious coach. That benefit allowed Porto to pay off its debts in the next three to five years.

This made Felipe Vieira an envy.

Now, Benfica is also following Porto's path, hoping to become the second "European black shop" in the Portuguese Super League after Porto.

Diego and David Luiz didn't know that before Benfica introduced them, they had already started to think about what kind of high transfer value they should pay after they grew up and helped the team win the championship. Sell ​​it to the giant teams in the five major leagues.

Anyway, the agent of Diego and David Luiz is Jorge Mendes, known as "Football Buffett", so Benfica doesn't have to worry about their future sales.

(End of this chapter)