And the Joke of the Week goes to......

Correio da Manha's first page today.

Inside they explain how Quique threatened to quit, if the team's administration didn't follow his requests to maintain both Diamantino and Chalana as auxiliary coaches, whose main functions are to work away from the practice field, specifically, observing future adversaries, and other player related issues.

I knew it wouldn't be too long before the media took the story and ran with it, after noticing that both Chalana and Diamantino weren't part of the training sessions.
It took them only a few days to cook up a destabilizing story, as they have many times before. Even after Quique's assistant, Pako Ayestaran,(questioned about Diamantino and Chalana) explained that there is a lot of work around a professional team these days, and that the games are not always won with the work that's done on the practice field but also off of it.

There's absolutely no merit to this story in my opinion, and i don't even care to discuss it any further.

I've said it once before, and i will say it again, Benfica, and everything Benfica sells papers.

As an example (regardless of what the covers are meant to imply)

A Bola
Had Benfica related covers on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday this week.

Record
Out of their last 14 covers
Benfica was the central point of the 10 of them
Check it out for yourself here

Off course many of these covers are sensationalistic news, meant to make you buy the paper. These news also serve to condition the public's mind in relation to Benfica, targets and more targets, which are often followed by failures to sign, when in fact they are very far from the truth.
As a Benfica fan, you have to always think twice about what you are reading, and how much truth exists in these news. With so many names being thrown up in the air, and subsequent "failures" to sign, what conclusions can the average fan have? Certainly one of incompetence by Benfica, which is very far from the truth.

Think before you read, and think after you read, is the advice i offer.