Damaging a Historic Club: The Sad Story of Benfica, Vieira, Civil War & Self-Sabotage
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- SL Benfica is one of Europe’s most historic clubs, having stopped Real Madrid’s early European Cup dominance. Things haven’t gone as smoothly lately, despite the club boasting one of the best academies in the world that churns out stars like Bernardo Silva, João Félix & Ruben Dias, and making close to €1 Billion in player sales over the last decade. Corruption from the past, allegations of such in the present, as well as allegations of voter fraud… this is Benfica in 2021: a selling club that is holding itself back.
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Hey Adrian. I love your football content man. Please consider doing a video on the Soweto Derby (i.e. Orlando Pirates vs Kaizer Chiefs). It is one of Africa's biggest football derbies.
It was blast talking with you again! I've said it before and I'll say it again, the best part of this club is not the people inside it but all the people around it! The fans are what make it truly amazing!
Mario is a Benfica legend
Great content guys. However, I must say that this topic should be addressed in Portuguese as a large majority of the fan base (especially those with 50 votes) does not have the English skills required to understand you. Keep it going!
@@Viper919 What make it truly amazing is corruption on your club with 600M from Novo Banco
As a Sporting supporter its strange to see a Benfica team with so much talent combined with decent veterans look so average. Portuguese teams lately have had too many issues in the board/backroom. Rivalry aside Portuguese teams need to step up and compete especially on a continental stage. Finances aren't helping anyone these days obviously but maybe its time for us to go back to the days of pushing the gritty academy players.
Pushing academy players has been a big reason for our sucess so far
Gritty academy players won't make a difference if they're just being window-shopped and then sold after 12 months. The biggest issue in all of Portuguese futbol is talent retention. I think the league needs to come up with a way to curb the selling mentality of the Liga teams.
Problem is everywhere! Bad player are getting their contracts extended while good good player are always sold.
Thanks for BRUNO😍😍😍
@@cdb5001 i agree if you look at Sportings sudden take over of first place after years of Benfica/Porto domination you can see that the squad is filled with young, hungry youth looking to prove their worth while Benfica and Porto field “superstars”. The issue in Portugal right now is money retention which is what is driving the sales of these promising players. Clubs have to realize that results bring financial success and a switch back to the youth format instead of viewing them as commodities can solve much of these issues at least domestically.
Jorge Mendes might be helpful to Portuguese players and the Portuguese national team but he's destroying Portuguese clubs
It's not his fault, the players want to leave, if it wasn't mendes someone else will do it
@@sosolawson6587 the players want to leave because they know they can with him, without him some players might actually stay at their club for once
Exactly
@@sosolawson6587 he also takes a large amount of money from the deals 10 million of the 40 million Fabio silva cost wolves was directly sent to him
@@sosolawson6587 its not like that.. Some players wouldn't mind one or two seasons at benfica before leaving, but they literally get put aside until they """"want""" to leave and then JM sells them for 15M€ and the club receives like 5 if so
Glad you're addressing this situation. Vieira did a lot for the club but has unfortunately become a greedy asshole who damages not only the club but an entire country for profits. Saddening that the club I support has dipped this low and how some still believe this man's lies enough to re-elect him. Benfica's current situation is the best example that shows that money isn't what solves problems. It's character and dedication. #VieiraOut
greedy asshole? lol that "greedy asshole" has been working his ass off for the last 17 years doing more for this clube than anyone has ever done, being attacked by everything and everyone exactly because he put Benfica back on the map and yet there are still stupid people like you who act as if everything it's his fault when the male football club does a bad season. And you think you know something? people like you don't know shit about what this club is about and the amount of work that goes behind the results to make this club bigger and bigger everyday in every single possible way. Don't be an ass, I'm so glad it'll be 4 years until people like you try to ruin this club again
@@SaintJimmy72 He's not gonna suck you off, no need to defend him. And read my comment again, you clearly didn't read it judging by your comment. I said he did a lot of good things in the past, and I know what he did for the club. Now, he is only hurting it (when it comes to the male football team) and only a blind person wouldn't see where the problem comes from.
@@SaintJimmy72 "for the clube"
Writting straight facts, Benfica is doomed to corruption ;P
@@SaintJimmy72 Mais um soldadinho do orelhas.
Omg Benefica could have become like an all stars team if these players stayed around
So could Ajax and all these teams that have a great academy
@@DawkBrawlin especially Ajax!!!
Money is more important
Dortmund as well
Universities could be as big as Google or Amazon if they kept all the students
Last time I was this early Benfica was not cursed
I've been a Benfica fan since 2004. Back when in career mode it was the 1st decent European Club that would offer me a job after picking a Liga MX team to start off career mode lol. Since then I've followed the team. Watch their games and learned the team history. Wish Benfica could become a power house in Europe like the 60s again.
where are you from?
Hahaha a netflix series about the portuguese football mafia would be wonderful!
😂
Specially now since some of the game's high names got on a plane with cocaine valued in 45 million euros in Brazil 😂😂😂
“Benfica’s máfia” not portuguese you moron
@@hetiolic Sim é a tua prima ó otário. Não é só o Benfica que tem máfia. Aliás, toda a gente sabe que os clubes do norte são os mais ricos nessa matéria. E depois há a máfia dos bancos e do governo. Muita máfia, e ainda mais otários, como tu.
@@lukehunnable you’ll have to choose a language mate... Probably you are a Benfica fan and you like to shuffle the languages like Benfica shuffled the refs.
Damn this is close to your heart and it shows
Dats why he didn't tell the all story...so many crimes committed by his loved club....bias
@@r13p13 tu deves ser de um clube com uma história limpinha
@@nottiagomike His team donates fruit loops!
@@r13p13 controla te tripeiro de merda. O teu clube é o símbolo de tudo aquilo que está errado no futebol. O teu presidente é um mafioso corrupto e se morresse o futebol português ficava melhor
Crimes? He's not a Porto supporter. His club isn't the criminal organization.
Eusebio what a legend. From Mozambique with love.
I'm a Porto fan, and I believe Eusebio was the greatest of his era. Pele gets all the hype, but he isn't even the best Brazilian from that time (Garrincha is). Eusebio took Benfica to 7 European Cup finals. How can you argue anyone is better than that?
@@cdb5001 We won against brasil and they had pele on the team. Go watch that match.
@@Enclosure_2k Pele is a legend in his own mind. I don't think he was that good and I think he's a horrible human being.
@@cdb5001 7 international finals, not european. However, Pele beat him in the 2 intercontinental cups they went to, so theres a case for that. Also, the brazilian league at the time was great, not like now. Its an opinion debate forever though.
@@Enclosure_2k they tackled him out of the game, wouldnt happen nowadays
"Luís Filipe Vieria ranks amongst one of Portugal's wealthiest people"... Right. Because nobody is in a rush to make him pay what he owes to the bank. BES bank has a hole in it that should be named after LFV.
My grandfather was a policeman and used to see Vieira at the station many times under the suspicion of drug trafficking. The guy has "criminal" written all over it, and the benfica elections keep saving him
Mate he owes 600M to BES, and also he’s known in Lisbon as “luis dos pós” which is basically luis of the powders ( the powder is cocaine if that wasn’t clear) xD and Benfica got a van caught leaving their stadium with a bunch of coke the famous porta 38
@Francisco Ferreira, não é porta 38, é porta 18. Get it right! 😂
@@ravenclawelitetrainer6979 true xD enganei-me ahah
@@desporto6559 correção insignificante
The Benfica anthem at the end was a brilliant touch!
Não conhecia esta versão assobiada. Awesome!
Almost felt like crying bro after hearing it😞
When you talk about Benfica, it shows that it hits closer to your heart. :)
Hoping for a brighter future, dark days recently...
BTW, nice seeing Sporting doing so well, from a Benfica supporter. Portuguese football needed them back on track.
Been to Lisbon and to the estádio da luz a few years ago. Benfica has the history and the energy of a big european club. Club-Management is really a problem though
Their needs to be more respect for the Ajaxs, Dortmunds, and Benficas of the world. Where would football be without them?
You should do a video on how Sporting is on track to win its first league title in years, I think it would be interesting to see your pov on Sporting's season
Ruben is killing it. Once we are further in the title race and Sporting are still going strong, I absolutely will.
@@RabonaTV i thought Ruben will help braga to win the title if he is doing bad at sporting but i was so wrong
I would love this!!
@@hugoumero9723 Rubén Amorim is actually benfiquista, played there recently.
Its easy! In Ruben Amorim Era sporting are not allowed to hide behind "referring errors"... face it! This sporting attitude has nothing to do with previous sporting. Now they actually have a competetive attitude insted os that cucking bitch the refs are against us atitude.
Awesome video bro, not so awesome subject. It's scary to think that only a few years ago we were aiming for Europe and now I am sat listening to you and Mario talking about a potential crisis at the club. Somehing has got to give and as soon as Covid eases, I can guarantee you, people will be heard. Stay safe brother. Carrega BENFICA!
Love bro, appreciate it. And I agree, COVID is giving them a free pass at the moment, but that won't last forever...
Só na cabeça dos benfiquistas é que achavam que iam ganhar a Liga dos Campeões 😂😂 nem a fase de grupos conseguem passar 😂😂
@@lostinnepal7897 aiming for europe 🤣🤣🤣
At least they can beat Arsenal...🤷🏻♂️
@@lostinnepal7897 chegamos aos quartos de final contra o bayern e não levámos na boca, ao contrário de alguns. E chegamos a duas finais da liga Europa. Por isso, stfu
Thank you so much from a Benfica fan!
Viera is killing the bigest club of Portugal.
It's sad
the biggest club of Portugal is only alive because of vieira, don't be ridiculous
@@SaintJimmy72 and so what? He is killing the club.
It's a end of a cycle
Lol if there wasn t for the betting and drug business Benfica would be a middle table club after the previous president Vale e Azevedo been arrested for corruption...
Obrigado Adrian. It's sad to see my club going through such a tough patch with mismanagement and corruption cases all over, but we are Benfiquistas and we'll always have hope for a better day and that we'll come out of this situation stronger than ever. CARREGA BENFICA
I'm a Porto supporter and the mismanagement of benfica can really destroy the club, I mean what purpose is there in having a great academy like Seixal if you sell every talented player that come from there before they get in the first team. But I think there are underlying problems in portuguese football, some caused by the polarization of football globally and others by mismanagement of the clubs. In 2011 Porto could literally stand up to any team in world football and now we are swimming in debt. Sporting has probably the best academy in Portugal and they are even worse. There are serious structural problems in portuguese football but every fan is too busy fighting each other to see that if we stand united we could make portuguese football one of the great leagues again, but maybe its just wishful thinking. Im just tired of seeing bad performances in Europe and unexciting title races at home.
We have to be honest (fellow Portista here), Pintinho needs to go. His son has been running the club in the shadows, getting rid of Antero Henrique, who was then scooped up by PSG, and selling players and fudging numbers for their own profit. We need a new President and an overhaul of the finances.
As for Sporting, Varandas was crapped on by everyone, but he's done an excellent job with what he was given. Sporting are in debt, but they have been chipping away and with a first title in 20 years, and potential Champions League football, their debt could be wiped in 1-2 years.
I wish everyone was like you and me, for real!
Do you know when the financial problem Started? After Lopetegui where we wasted 80M in signings after we went 4 YEARS without a single title
That last sentence... so woke
@@ugandakfc5468 Lopes-tegui, at the time was a bad signing, not to mention the money spent on making the team FC Puerto.
At the time, Lopes-tegui was a specialist in tournament footy at the U-19 level, and was unproven at senior level. He also had a massive chip on his shoulder.
I don't like the guy, but he's proving himself at Sevilla. Porto just took a huge gamble and it did not pay off.
Benfica have such an insane development system, and just to sell them like that and not reinvest properly is painful to watch, even from someone looking from the outside in.
You can only reinvest so much there’s still financial fair play. We do need a need a new president. Will be difficult to find someone worthy of the job.
They imvested this year like never and now we are playing worse than ever
@@tijolo233 you can’t just buy a team and expect them to play. Klopp to 4-5 years to have Liverpool play the way they do
people think all this money has to be reinvested in football players and forget the club is still paying debt from the pre-Vieira era. Also the academy, the stadium, etc. People think money comes from the trees or something, it's ridiculous how someone who knows zero about that kind of stuff makes a video like this
I enjoy that a lot. When a club focus on wars and rivals forgets to manage itself. Last 3 seasons Benficas pre season has been ridiculous. The corruption was so much they forgot how to prepare for the league. A squad with many flaws every time. Too many rubbish players that only came to Benfica because of Mendes, too many offensive midfielders and few defensive midfielders. Since Matic benfica hasn't got a proper defensive midfielder and yet the fans are blind to this. All they care about is propaganda. I see no problem with it to be honest. Keep it that way.
Amazingly accurate, fair and timely video.
Some very important things were left out, probably due to the duration of the video (eg. Mendes having 10% commission by default in academy players, LFV’s rigged associate number, LFV’s issues with justice, LFV’s aggression to a supporter in the club’s general assembly, lack of investment for the penta, 100M€ pre-election investment a month after statements of financial caution due to covid, lack of investment in other sports and a few more).
However, for me, the main missing piece is that the voting system used is developed and managed by the IT department of the club, which reports to DSO, LFV’s right arm (Sporting fan also with a rigged number). Furthermore, it was found out that, unlike what the club stated, the system has not been audited by the CNE since 2006!
I was there on election day, with 4-hour queues in the middle of a pandemic and a majority of supporters talking (and singing) about change. I have no doubt the election was forged.
I am sure time will put LFV in the right place. I just hope there is some Benfica left when that happens.
Great great work, congrats to everyone involved.
I wish you were right about time putting LFV in the right place but nothing is ever going to happen. He's too rich and influential here in Portugal... Just like the remaining corrupt elites that fuck up our country in government, banks, etc. nothing ever happens to any of them.
Sometimes clubs need a shakedown, Benfica is needing one. Cut ties with the present, new blood, a new managerial vision. We need to be smarter in the market, a portuguese club cannot spend 100M€ and fail!
Doesn't matter who you buy, we cannot afford FACTS Miguel
We got the chance to change all of that in October but the dictator still won the elections
@@paulobotas3597 long live the dictator.
@Paulo Botas “won”
@@luislima3476 nunca vamos saber pq os votos desapareceram
Had he stepped away when you said, during the league dominance, LFV could have been remembered as a saviour by the fans. From the perspective of that time, all he'd done had resulted in real amazing moments, even the shady stuff didn't feel as shady. Him staying until now took away that meaning, and added a layer of murk. It makes some of the earlier decisions look insincere. In 4 years he goes from hero to villain basically.
Such a great video. Made me write notes as I was watching as if it was a class lecture haha! I have a Benfiquista friend who is seriously stressed out about the state of Benfica & how LFV is still @ the club. Your content makes me learn more about the footballing world and I appreciate that. Y'all @ Benfica deserve better than what's currently happening fr
thanks
U could speak to 5 minutos a benfica
He is good actually
Have I ever said that I love you Adrian!!!
This is what i needed as a benfiquista. You gave voice to the voiceless, and brought forth the issues we are dealing with.
Also, the ending with the unofficial Benfica Anthem in whistles was beautiful.
As someone who's been an intern in the museum, and who loves this club i sincerely thank you Adrian!!!
Abraço Benfiquista (A befiquista hug)!!!!
bruno lage first season was the best benfica i saw in years! although second season was really bad the team wasnt the same without joao felix he was the glue to the that team. in my opinion we lost because he was sacked very later. in portugal most people on the news said "i voted on luis filipe vieira" but i tthink its time for him to step away too many scandals
A equipa sem o Félix, fizemos a melhor primeira volta de sempre, os jogadores deixaram de jogar, o Lage foi fodido pelo LFV e Rui Costa ele já queriam o JJ.... Vergonhoso o que está a acontecer...
@@FranciscoSilva-xk4hg exato, vergonhoso o que certos jogadores fizeram tbm, a dar flash interviews a dizer que estavam a fazer o que lhes era pedido(culpando indiretamente o lage)e a livrarem se de culpas, na altura estava o lage a 5 pontos da liderança e foi despedido, amanhã podemos ficar a 13. Independente quer fôssemos ou não campeões este ano o Benfica precisa de uma estrutura nova, a começar pelo presidente.
@@FranciscoSilva-xk4hg achei sempre que a equipa nao estava a jogar bem. alias quem e que estava confiante quando fomos jogar as antas? mas tb concordo que no final os jogadores deixaram completamente de jogar
The team without the priest s sucks...no penaltis anymore :(
I’ve been waiting this for a while👀, it’s been a frustration watching Benfica, it feels like it has no project now, I’m grateful for Vieira but I think it’s time for him to go
It is sad to see what Benfica has become. I hope this club will be prominent again in Europe.
Simply put, Benfica forms great players for the use of others. When a player is a finished product, as in, is ready to compete, maybe, maybe he makes 6 great months at Benfica A and then is sold.
I mean, I get that players like João Félix - after a great season - are bombarded by proposals of other big clubs, but with a little more ambition from the president and the so called 10 years ahead "structure", shouldn't we be doing much more to retain the great players for at least 1 more year? We have pictures of our president holding another club's jersey after selling a Benfica player, celebrating. His business isn't winning, is business. If we win trophies, great, if not all good - it's the same for him - that was never his priority. He uses Benfica as a shield, he doesn't serve Benfica.
Another thing worth mentioning, never in our history we invested so much as the 20/21 Season. Why is that? Why would we decide to invest 80M€ in a time like this? Every company is lowering budget, and Benfica decides to invest at a time like this? You might think it would be to form a super team, but no. It was simply to win elections, as Vieira is being very contested, and I'm not even sure if he won, because nobody counted the physical votes, among other reported "issues".
We are tired of lies and demagogy and shadiness in pretty much every area of the club.
Only morons believe LFV is a benfiquista. He is a con man, nothing else.
@@borisnegrarosa9113 As if that was the only issue... From gaining years out of nowhere that allowed him to be President, to tighten the neck to a "member" (sócio in Portuguese) in a general assembly, that almost seems irrelevant ehehe.
I bet the dislike is from Benfica TV!
AHAHAHAH GOOD ONE🤣🤣🤣
*VieiraTV
or vieira supporters
My Vovô and great uncle were big fans of benfica, I own one of the trainer jackets of my great uncles. As I started getting into football last few years they have become that dream visit team. I love that you produce content for them great stuff!
Already know video is gonna be a banger. Good to see you tackling Benfica's situation Adrian
I always look forward to your content man! Been telling my friends about you since we all love football! 🙌🏼
Rabona and Mario together 👌
Vamos Benfica!
I've been watching more Portuguese football because my girlfriend lives in Lisbon (her family is a Sporting Fan, but because I am german i like Benfica because of Weigl and Waldschmidt). These facts about the president and the club are very new to me and I think it's very interesting! Hopefully we'll see Benfica (or Portuguese football in general) have a competetive league in the near future thanks to maybe a new tv deal ( Benfica TV is complete BS)
Until Portuguese football gets centralized TV right and the Benfica and Porto presidents leave our league nothing will change.
Every year a historic club will go bankrupt and go to lower division.
The big 3 have so much more money and power in Portuguese football that not even fair.
The downfall of benfica could actually be good for Portuguese football.
Podemos ter tido azares ao longo da história mas nunca vamos deixar de apoiar! Viva o Benfica❤️
Hey Adrian, love your content, and I’m so happy to see you covering the Liga NOS in more detail.
Even as a Sportinguista, it’s amazing to see you produce content of this tier about clubs so close to my heart (for better or worse).
Would you consider doing a similar video about Sporting’s history and financial situation in the last decades?
Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you so much for doing this. We could be so much more, but the trojan horse is well within our house, venerated by supporters who love him more than the club. I hope that someday we all could see the Benfica we all deserve. We don't deserve a Vieira... no one deserves a Vieira. Thank you. PS: Didn't know about your channel, but you've earned a new subscriber.
Great video! Just a corretion: in the dark ages of the club, we called it "Vietnam", the last title was in 1996 (the Cup) and not in 1994!
Best wishes to Benfica
~ FC Kola Inglesa fan
Great video man! I am a Benfica fan and you did a great job. Thank you raising awareness on this. Subscribed.
I saw this video coming up on my feed maybe 10 times. It's so sad what we're currently living in our beloved Benfica that I didn't even want to see it to be honest. Oh man, here goes nothing... Thanks Adrian, I'm sure this will be awesome content as usual. Much love from Lisbon. Viva, Viva o Benfica!
So many top clubs have Benfica players at their core, but a club as massive historically as Benfica shouldn't just be a gold mine for bigger clubs, but a European powerhouse by itself.
@@grievuspwn4g3 I appreciate clubs need to sell to make money, but the Champions League is such a gold mine that you need to strike the balance between selling and keeping players.
Such an amazing video men, Im a Benfica fan from the north of Portugal, In zones where everyone is either from Porto or Vitória de Guimarães. I actually live in Guimarães. And its really hard to be a Benfica fan, i cannot show support to my club, I have twp Benfica Jearsys that i cannot use because IF i do I would be in A LOT of trouble with the Vitoria fans. When Benfica wins its constant jokes of how we buy the referees and nothing that we win is trully fair. But Im and always will be a Benfica Fanatic. But the current state of the club is just kinda making everything worst. The passion inside our club is dead and its more than time for a change. But it looks like we have to wait 4 more years. #countthevotes #epluribusunum
Lemme guess, the jokes are coming from porto fans. They dont want to look at themselves with apito dourado so lets try and forget and blame Benfica. Benfica "rules" everything but we have 0 pens and they have 9 in 18 games, love their logic.
@@saintssantos7633 I dont even bother with people who do not have proper eyes. Its just really anoying. The only club who have been convicted of buying referees, always acuse others of that.
@@zimbras7015 I'm a Benfica fan (also from Guimarães btw) and Porto being the only club convicted for that actually shows how deep Benfica corruption runs - to the point that everyone knows what they've done and there are never any consequences.
Very sad that Portuguese football is rotten to this point and at the end of the day who suffers with this? The fans!
Amazing video as always, thanks Adrien. Also makes me proud that a fellow Canadian does what you do. Cheers.
Never been this early!
This is so unfortunate.. And its becoming a common line of story among football clubs..! Villainous businessmen milking the hell out of FCs manipulating the fans and the brand value. I wish there is something we as fans of a great game could do to smoke these pests away. This is happening in all major clubs today..! Exceptions are obviously the bundesliga clubs. Earlier players were made popular legends thanks to their grit and skill in their game. Nowadays and in the future players are been tried to made popular for enhancing brand values of their teams. Look at Xavi Simmons.
Thanks for educating us on the state of your favorite club! Clearly shows just how much you care about them, great content as always, Adrian.
Thanks for the video , i was waiting for this for a while now . Benfiquista forever !!!!!!!
Another wonderful video. As somebody who doesn’t watch Portuguese football, these are great watches. Your passion for the club leaks through this video and makes me want to support Benfica as well
Appreciate it Chandler. Maybe we'll do a Part Two on Portuguese football shenanigans in the future!
Why would want to support a corrupt club?
@@diogocouto8683 why would you support your club ?
I've been waiting for this one
Clicked as soon as the notification dropped, lots of love brother 💞. Love your channel.
what a video
This is one of the best football video i have watched for a while.It really opened my eyes about benfica
A wise man once said, “IT’S TIME TO GO.”
a wise man once said "ignorance is bliss", I look at people like you and I see why ;)
Day 8: Please do a ROR video about Sporting vs Benfica! The Segunda Circular derby deserves a video!!!!
Just great job. You summarized everything with details but not being boring, painting a good perspective of how a club with such a great academy can't even reach the knockouts of UCL consistently. This is what made me realize that the board is incompetent in the football department and that's the reason I wanted a change back in October. When it comes to the elections, I have no doubt that they were rigged (if anyone wants to dive further, the portuguese Wikipedia has a section dedicated to the controversies around the election) and that makes me sick to my core. A beautiful club with beautiful history is currently being used as a shield for its president and friends. Let's hope better days will come. CARREGA BENFICA!
I just found this video and this was great to learn about the insides of benfica because its a club that deserves to be among the elites and recognized and it always saddens me when i see people not even know who benfica is when in the champions league and its baffling to me.
He’s been waiting to make this for so long
Vieira is killing benfica
Amazing video, I subscribed to the channel, I'm a Benfica fan and I'm really sad a fearfull of what it's becoming
For the last 3 years its been even weird to watch their games. The players, the coaches and everyone involved look so tired or simply not motivated at all to be there. But yet, every time any of them speaks to the social media, they speak as everything is ok or the most common phrase they use "we did our job", it's so weird.
You described it perfectly, I have watched pretty much every single one of the games in the last years, and it seems the passion isn't there... no one to play like Jonas, like Gaitan, like Salvio (in his prime). Although, I feel like Cervi always seems like he is rowing upstream, he is the maybe the only player that truly seems to leave it all in the pitch and that seems semi-happy to play for the club
As a Benfica fan, its been depressing. He sacked a promising young coach that a minimum salary, to hire a clown that earns 7x more, while ignoring the youth academy and getting worse results.
Tenho saudades do lage hahaHg
I was wondering when you were making a video about Benfica since you're a Benfica fan and they're going through a crisis
Very insightful; I enjoyed this greatly.
Thank you for adressing this situation, Rabona TV. Even though it's painful as a benfiquista to see this historical club sinking all the way down, I have hope that we'll come back stronger someday and regain the european dimension we used to have.
❤️ best club in the world.
Voted in Noronha, not in LFV... today I'm sure I made the right decision
No you didn t , you should support the drug business and vote for LFV 😂 the prices of drugs are going sky high after the 21 trials on the courts
A beautiful video about such a tragic story, its so frustrating to be in this situation we have found ourselves in, the pieces are there, the potential's there but the fans preferred to re elect this guy and now the future's bleak with everything that's been happening and there are no signs that the tides will turn in our favour any time soon
Great job making the video. Cheers from a Benfica fan. 🔴⚪
It always baffles me when thinking about the large sums Benfica recoup from selling their most promising young players... if they aren’t reinvesting this money into players then what are they doing with it?
Many many deals were done with your club and most of the times, were shady deals where you don't know who gets what and how much
Unfortunately in Portugal football is deeply connected with politics the government and with corruption
I really hope my club dortmund doesn't go on this path 😬
Loved the info and the end music is so goooood man! thankyou
hard to watch but true. Thank you for this. CARREGA BENFICA❤️
You got to do a video on the other two “BIG 3” clubs
It's sad, but I could not care less about Benfica this season. It feels like it's all a big scam just to LFV keep his "power". Strong Vale e Azevedo vibes...
Benfica has a lot of conditions to be one of the biggest teams in Europe. A super academy of talents, one of the biggest fanbases in Europe, a great stadium and as you said, “apparently” a good finances. Unfortunately is governed by people who don’t seem to feel the club. Nowadays Benfica seems to be a company and not a club.
In 2020 LFV as exposed himself. In the last years he was involved in a lot of justice cases, and looks like he depends on the club. The super investiment that Benfica made this season was suspect, specially because they’ve spent 10 millions in the season to attack “Penta”. The sign of JJ was also a bad for LFV reputation, because when Jesus left for Sporting he guaranteed that he would never return to SLB.
Great video mate!👍
Great video as per usual,
As a Benfiquista I have the following things to add to your points:
Between 2016-2019 we lost very important figures in the dressing room: Julio Cesar, Artur Moraes, Luisão, Toto Salvio, Jonas, etc
While they might not have started every game, or absolute legends, but they were very important in the club and dressing room, specially Jonas, which is Benfica's best player between 2010-2020, seriously if we weren't able to break down a defense he would score a first time volley to break the deadlock and make others around him play even better (he basically combined with Gaitán, Lima, Mitroglou... with his eyes closed).
Not only we did not have the quality to replace some of those players we also did not have the players in the dressing room to replace their spirit and leadership. You need at least one of them (when Jonas started playing less João Félix stepped in and he was amazing) but idk having the players that when the game gets though or you get unlucky and lose a couple of matches are able to secure the manager and steer the ship is something that neither Pizzi, André Almeida and Jardel are able to do since they are different characters.
Another aspect that damaged Benfica is the rise in prices in the South American market. We used to get players like Nico Gaitán or Maxi Pereira directly from their native leagues... Now we got players like Cervi, Pedrinho, Conti or Lema. Cervi is an okay player but keeps getting descriminated by every couch for no apparent reason and then always makes a comeback but he's not Gaitán or Salvio xD, same with Pedrinho he has promisse but idk he's missing something specially for 20M.
Conti, Lema and other players that don't even make a first time appearance are usually shocking :(
Regarding what you have talked about in your video, per usual it is awesome, but I would like to make a couple of observations:
1) BTV has indeed decreased in quality tremendously, I miss the days when in aired the Premier League, Serie A, etc and had probably the best football comentators in Portugal (you can see them now scattered around Eleven Sports and Sport TV doing, in my opinion, an amazing job). I haven't subscribed to BTV since they lost the Premier League rights but from what I see it is indeed a propaganda machine for the direction D:
2) I think the election was probably legit. A very considerable portion of people who vote are athletes and people who work for Benfica and I can see them backing LFV a lot since he created a lot of infrastructure and investment in some areas that didn't exist previously so they have a lot appreciation for him. Still Noronha Lopes setup some ground for a future candidature to the presidency of the club!
And lastly my person opinion about Jorge Jesus appointment: I think what he did to Benfica after leaving for Sporting was unnacceptable. Ok he was hurt but he scoffed at the club, our coach at the time (Rui Vitória), players and fans. We should not have appointed him, he's a good manager, but so are many portuguese managers that could probably do a better job than what he's doing - Leonardo Jardim, Pedro Martins, Abel Ferreira that was at PAOK until 3 months ago, Ruben Amorim which we could have just signed before Sporting or gave him a better job than the U23 team without any saying in his own work... I don't see the necessity of hiring such an expensive coach that misstreated the club and always was very divisive in the fanbase...
Thanks for the video Adrian,
E Pluribus Unum
Porto supporter here but I felt that after the whole benfica VS JJ scandal, JJ would never be back at benfica.
LFV wanted to win a lot, "forgot" every thing he said and sign JJ to win titles again and invested a lot of money to do it. It hasn't worked and JJ clearly isn't a coach to develop kids.
Benfica is our academy from a city fan
Silva
Ederson
Dias
Cancelo
😇😇
I think city should have added Felix to that list. Instead he is being misused in atletico
@@mmasavant7731 imagine felix at city, he's like the perfect pep striker
@@bungeespeaks6081 I hope you sign Félix to replace Aguero.
As a fan of Benfica I just can't understand this club at all
Thank you Adrian for making this video about our club. We should be on the top of the league and have solid european campains , but with this management we will never achive that. #Vieraout
This was incredibly well done, subbed.
Lets see a video on Sportings rise with youngsters
Btw, Adrian, are you a sócio of Benfica? Can you vote in the elections?
Great video!!! Congrats 👏
Well put together as always. Great look into the club
We had a chance to change this in October, we didn't...
i no wonder why benfica fans want vieira out when benfica fans are the ones who vote the vieira instead of another president
@@hugoumero9723 I wanted Noronha Lopes for president, 62% of the fans want Vieira in because they're stuck in the past and don't see that he's our biggest problema rn. Besides the physical votes werent counted, only the virtual ones that can be easily manipulated
@@Miguelfp "62%" in a dictatorial regime means nothing
The old 'socios' who have been members for 25 years have 50 votes each. That explains the "62%"
That's what I mean when I say that the votes could be easily manipulated, we'll never know if Vieira actually won because Benfica is a dictatorship and the votes are hidden. I'm not saying he didn't win, but why would they hide the votes? Now we're gonna have to deal with 4 more years of this because the older fans can't let go of the past (trusting that the votes weren't manipulated). We all appreciate what he did for us in the past, but it was clearly time for a change
"Luís Filipe Vieria ranks amongst one of Portugal's wealthiest people" -- I wonder why.... Does anyone remember his nickname in the underground? "Kadaffi dos pneus"?
Excellent video!!! Congratulations!! I wish all Benfica supporters could see it.
Thanks for this - we need to rise up to the situation NOW! this is a mess.
As a Porto fan, I enjoy watching your club struggle domestically. And let's be honest, Sporting deserve where they are this season. Everyone crapped on Varandas but he inherited a horrible situation and has actually been very astute.
On the European stage, I pull for all Portuguese clubs as it's good for Portuguese representation and our league coefficient. I was surprised that LFV went back for Jesus, but not surprised by how crap he's been this season. JJ is the Portuguese Guardiola; all hype and nothing beyond his one team (Barca for Pep, Benfica for Jesus).
People talk of his Libertadores victory but Abel just did the same thing with a much worse team. LFV has mismanaged club money and Jesus is a fraud. These are Benfica's biggest problems. On a bigger stage, the corruption of Benfica in the "e Toupeira" scandal, along of course, with Porto's own bribe scandal 13 years ago, and the way the big 3 get favourable calls over smaller teams, is a massive issue for Portuguese footy.
"he inherited a horrible situation" BS. He was involved in that situation. While the club was going nuts(before the attack on Alcochete) he was already making a campaign to become the next president. And we are still waiting for him to talk about what happened on 15/16.
Benfica fan here. Just some thougts on your comment:
Sporting has been by far the most consistent team in the league so far and fully deserve where they stand. However, I'd say that a big portion of that domestic success is due to Benfica and Porto's underperformance throughout the campaign. Not to take anything away from a wonderful managerial job by Rúben Amorim and the decent presidency of Varandas.
On Benfica, completely agreed. LFV has without a doubt done a great job at rebuilding the club but the corruption scandals and general disregard for the supporters' hopes of success and belief in a squad built around the talent generated are astonishing. He's drunk with power and I fear that Rui Costa will continue the road of mediocrity and disconnection from the fans. It's time for a different project to begin.
I also wanted to get your take on Porto's situation- the academy has produced some fantastic young players who seem to be rushed out for a quick profit. Don't you think it would be better for the financial health and european estabilishment of the club to take a couple of seasons to bed in those young players and build a side that could then be sold for far more money, even if that means sacrificing some domestic success?
Finally, hard disagree on Guardiola. His Bayern side was quite good, hindered by european drought (which is Guardiola's biggest flaw, of course), but both is Barcelona and City sides- despite the talent level and investment- play football close to perfection in my opinion. JJ is above average as a coach but certainly not at the level the portuguese media tried to put him
(Veio em inglês para os "mouros" que quisessem ler. Boa sorte com a Juve. Abraço!)
My guy Adrian, say it louder for the people in the back!
Straight facts 💯
at this moment the harm Luis Filipe Vieira does to Benfica is equal as worse as Vale e Azevedo. the talented players we have in the reserves team don't get playing time, we have have prima donnas like Pizzi who are intoxicating the dressing room in the inside. we have a coach that in every press conference talks about Flamengo (his previous club) and how happy he was in there, like a guy who keeps talking all the time about is ex-girlfriend. our european perfomances in the last 10-12 years have been embarrassing to say the least, and Benfica TV is no more than a propaganda channel who insults everyone that dares to criticize the president. thank you for the fantastic work, i subscribed to your channel :)
greetings from a Benfica supporter.
Your videos are so interesting man great job 💪🏾
Paok f.c really did a number on benfica this year.
And most incredible thing was that the player that scored the winning goal for PAOK was released by benfica in the beginning of the season (he still had a year left in his contract).
@@rocky1169pt yea i know but credit to him he didn't celebrate.
Good thing they have Arsenal this week
I still think that Arsenal will beat us under this current situation. I hope for the best
This is your best work so far. Fantastic job Rabona TV!
Thank you Adrian. Great video. Keep it going!
The "benfiquistas" are sleeping. No one asks where is going all money arned by the sells.
Pra comprar jogadores tono
@@filipesilva3337 claro o benfica fez 1 bilhão de euros em vendas de jogadores na era luis filipe vieira, queres me explicar onde o benfica gastou esse dinheiro? tens a resposta e se tens faz la as contas na compra dos jogadores e vê se consegues chegar a um bilhão. se tivessemos uma boa gestão poderiamos ser uma potencia mundial, mas não somos graças a estas sucessivas falhas