Thursday, December 13, 2007

Benfica News 12/13/07



-Gilberto Silva is rumoured to have come to an agreement with Benfica. The left back has had a contract renewal proposal from Hertha for quite sometime, but negotiations have been frozen. The doubts comes from when Gilberto will join Benfica, This January or at the end of the season. I can't help but to think this is some kind of a plot to influence Leo. It will either put the squeeze on him and make him lower his wage demands, which are now 2 not 3 years, or it'll just upset him and make him leave. Leo told the media yesterday that Benfica is his house and he feels at home at Benfica.


-Still no news on Cesar Delgado, according to the Mexican media, the player's destiny should be resolved by Monday. Delgado is scheduled to go through the pre-season physical today. His Representative claims that Cruz Azul has the last word but it would have to offer the player an attractive offer to renew. In the mean time Olympiacos has a $6m usd on the table, but they would only be interested in a July transfer. Both Lyon and Benfica would be interested in the player come January. In the meantime, Cruz Azul will need the situation resolved quickly as they will need to fill Delgado's spot in the event of a transfer. Cruz Azul will start their season jan 2nd with games for the Interliga - article link ( ESPNDeportes).


-Yu Dabao was called by the Chinese Olympic team to play 2 friendlies against the US.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It seems that Benfica is really interested in Fernando Bellushi (a nÂș 8). With this guy and Chelito Delgado (I believe to play as a right winger) Benfica can improve a lot the quality of the game.

Let's wait and see.

Fumas said...

yeah, i did read somewhere, LFV Enquired about Bellushi. But i think he is financially way out of our league check out http://www.planetadofutebol.com/
Luis Freitas Lobo has an interesting article on some rising stars from this year's argentina apertura " Valeri (Lanus)" also do a search on Cesar Delgado in his site and check out his entries.
cheers

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