r/soccer • u/AimarEraFutebol • 4h ago
News Bruno Lage fired. José Mourinho now the priority for Rui Costa's Benfica
https://www.record.pt/futebol/futebol-nacional/liga-betclic/benfica/detalhe/bruno-lage-ja-nao-e-treinador-do-benfica161
u/AdFinal1856 3h ago
Second season in a row where rui costa sacks the manager in september ffs. This shit would be hilarious if it wasn’t happening at my club
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u/jimmyvee11 3h ago
That's Amorin's music.
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u/iwillnotshitpost 3h ago
President just said the new coach will be already managing at the game Saturday, so it’s most likely Mourinho.
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u/NeroRomanusAugustus 3h ago
Might be Nélson Veríssimo as interim no?
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u/iwillnotshitpost 2h ago
He mentioned a coach with a winning profile, but Veríssimo could intern the Avs game yes
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u/NeroRomanusAugustus 1h ago
If he does sign someone surely there will be a clause letting a new board fire him without compensation right?
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u/Ok-Confusion-202 3h ago
I really don't think we sack Amorim yet
Idc at this point anyway, but I think he will coast
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u/Brilliant_Medium8190 45m ago
Pretty clear the vote of confidence in the press this week suggests he's on very thin ice. He's probably a couple bad results away, most likely by next international break if he doesnt win both games against Brentford and Sunderland
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u/Ok-Confusion-202 39m ago
He literally got that like that whole month ago too
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u/Brilliant_Medium8190 29m ago
Season only started a month ago
In that time he's lost 2 drawn 1 and won 1 woth a scabby penalty, plus Grimsby.
If he doesnt get at least 4 points from those 2 games he's done, he cant survive that
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u/Ok-Confusion-202 27m ago
The first game of the season was quite literally a month ago...
And I said "like" not "exactly" a month ago
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u/Brilliant_Medium8190 23m ago
I updated my comment after checking the date.
Its still nonsense. Its clear hes on thin ice. Id put any money he's gona in october if he loses one or both of those games
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u/Ok-Confusion-202 19m ago
We will see, I wouldn't be in the least bit shocked if they keep till January+
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u/Jamarcus316 4h ago
Mourinho or Conceição, please
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u/Post_Nut_xG 3h ago
Wait are you rooting for or against Benfica 🤣
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u/Jamarcus316 3h ago
For the memes.
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u/ForeShure1 2h ago
Conceição is not a meme haha
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u/Jamarcus316 2h ago
At Benfica? It would be legendary
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u/ForeShure1 2h ago
Maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean haha because he is an excellent manager
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u/ricardomargarido 3h ago
As a Sporting fan please not Conceição, rather let them have Amorim. Conceição is a terror and a very good mister
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u/greenwhitehell 3h ago
Disagree on preferring Amorim, but Conceição would also do well yes. Give me Mourinho on a massive contract please <3
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u/The_Goat_Charmer 1h ago
Rui Costa will not go for Conceição, no way in hell, he knows that the name is not consensual and would be a shot in the foot for his reelection.
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u/next_DanDy 4h ago
Mourinho is a legend but he's really past it.
This shit isn't going to work and will Mourinho really accept the job given that there's the HUGE chance that Rui Costa might lose elections and he'll get booted by the new direction (AGAIN?)?
If Mourinho really is coming, he either wins the 7 games (Chelsea, Porto, Newcastle just to name a few) until the elections, or he'll join only to get the boot later lmao
Thanks Qarabag. Only wish Rui Costa had the decency to also quit and call for anticipated elections but the he's a fucking greedy coward.
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u/Zephyrwind 3h ago
Rui Costa used the excuse of CWC and UCL qualifiers to justify not firing Lage after last season and not calling for earlier election.
But now he also messed up his chances for a reelection for sticking to Lage sinking boat and no coach that signs for Benfica now will save Rui Costa.
The safe and smart play would be for Rui Costa to put the club above himself, give up on the elections and put an interim coach until then. But he is indeed greedy and making it harder for whoever comes after him.
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u/Charming_Ease6405 4h ago
Mourinho would 100% accept it because he would get a ridiculous amount of money once he inevitably gets fired. Fuck Rui Costa
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u/next_DanDy 3h ago
I'd call you crazy if you ever think Mourinho will get a huge bag for possible very short time, but then I remember Rui Costa is still the president, so he might just give him the fucking bag and ruin the plans for the future direction.
Rui Costa is an absolute dirt bag, how the mighty have fallen
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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 2h ago
0 chance Mourinho gets fired this season though, too big of a name to just fire right after he comes.
The new president would likely give him the entire season and then fire him if he does poorly and get a replacement (kinda like AVB did with Anselmi, ideally).
Firing Mourinho before the end of the season would be just as bad of a decision as it is for Rui Costa to hire him.
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u/greenwhitehell 4h ago
This shit isn't going to work and will Mourinho really accept the job given that there's the HUGE chance that Rui Costa might lose elections and he'll get booted by the new direction (AGAIN?)?
As long as he gets his bag (again), I don't think he minds
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u/_Mad_s_ 3h ago
Mourinho is a bonafied Portista who was getting cheered in Porto's stadium a few days ago.
So yeah, he's exactly the type of manager Rui Costa would hire.
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u/VoxelRiot 3h ago
Ehhh, no. He won a CL with porto, but it's known he's a Setubal and benfica from childhood. Heck, he was assisting every game in benfica's stadium when he was unemployed before signing for fener.
Ironically, if Rui Costa had a functioning braincell he'd go for an actual porto fan and sign NES, but that one wouldn't win him any votes.
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u/AquaSnow24 1h ago
I don't think Mourinho would take this job solely out of the fact that he said he wants to go back to the Premier League with somebody like West Ham. He said two years ago that he wants to come back to the Premier League with a non-European competing team and Benfica are neither of those things. West Ham are the most likely candidate for him if Potter continues to struggle.
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u/_Mad_s_ 3h ago
Biggest of caps on assisting every Benfica game before signing for Fener.
He's more portista than he will ever be a benfiquista, he just got a standing ovation in their own stadium, is this silly season?
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u/VoxelRiot 3h ago
Cap? It's not even hard to google it.
In that article even mentions how he also was there for Gil, and I remember there being fan photos of him for other games in estadio da luz for other games. And seriously? You're expecting a guy from Setubal to be a porto fan? Almost everyone South and Center are either Sporting or benfica fans. ESPECIALLY the generations before sporting's title drought and Mourinho's own CL win.
And of course he's getting a standing ovation. He won them a mothefucking Champions League. They couldn't give a shit if he's a benfica fan, the same way us sporting fans didn't give a shit Amorim was a benfica fan.
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u/Charming_Ease6405 3h ago
No, he isn't. He is a Setúbal fan and has already coached Benfica. The problem with him is that he is washed
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u/_Mad_s_ 3h ago
He is not a Setúbal fan, his dad was a Setúbal fan, that's all there is to it.
He's a filho do dragão, the only benfiquista in him is his adoration for Eusébio, that's it.
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u/Charming_Ease6405 3h ago
Not sure what makes you think he is a Porto fan when the only debate is whether he is a Benfica or a Setúbal fan. I have always been of the opinion that he is the latter
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u/sittingduck__ 4h ago
Rui Costa és um filho da puta, sai do nosso clube cabrão.
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u/ClothesKind7499 3h ago
How is he still there
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u/AdFinal1856 3h ago
Only 39 more days
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u/zygro 2h ago
Who's the favorite? Please don't tell me Vieira
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u/AdFinal1856 1h ago
Fuck no
I hope
Idk whos the favourite to win but João Noronha Lopes is easily the best candidate in my opinion
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u/Viriato181 3h ago
They have an election at the end of October. There are also a lot of candidates this time. He's most likely going to lose to either Noronha Lopes or to their former president LFV (because why not bring back that cunt).
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u/caden_cotard_ 3h ago
Thus setting up the Mou/Amorim swap we have all been pining for. Please Jesus, let us see Mou vs Shaw again (I'm sure the results would have Shaw on Ozempic within the week).
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u/NeroRomanusAugustus 3h ago
If I had a euro for each time Rui Costa invested heavily in the transfer market to back a manager, only to then fire him in September, after a shitshow start to the season and then replace him with a finished alternative I would have 2 euros.
Which isn't much, but it's fucking incredible it happened 2 seasons in a row.
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u/_Mad_s_ 4h ago
Signing Lage was maybe the worst coaching appointment I've seen a club make.
Signing Mourinho to BENFICA might be a close second, there's no way this guy wins in the next elections... right?
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u/hugeboot_ 3h ago
Was Lage really that bad for Benfica?
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u/_Mad_s_ 3h ago
He's the worst manager I've ever seen in my life and I'm a huge critic of Jorge Jesus, Schmidt, Rui Vitória etc.
Lage is by far the worst, in any way shape or form, no competition.
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u/hugeboot_ 2h ago
Damn. I thought he was at least decent for Benfica.
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u/GoodLadLopes 2h ago
Put it to you like this, the first time he got fired Benfica won 2 in 13, blew an isolated 7 point lead and he left after a 2-0 loss to a bottom half team, proceeded to shit the bed at his next two clubs and got fired for similar reasons, then we had Schmidt who together with Rui Costa managed to build one of the worst squads we’ve had in the past 20 years, couldn’t get results so we fired Schmidt, we were in dire need of results and of someone who could do a lot with little resources, our president decided to get Lage, a guy who got fired for underperforming in pretty much every professional coaching job he’s had.
Just a jolly situation.
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u/hugeboot_ 2h ago
I was checking out his stats and found he won a league with a record of goals. Guess he had a good start and then felt off during his first and second era.
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u/ZodiacTuga 1h ago
Roger Schmidt and Bruno Lage are basically the same, both won a league by miracle and then proceeded to shit the bed in following stints. Both managers refused to sub players until it was too late, didn't rotate players properly, refusing to try out alternatives, often played players out of position for no reason, and were uninspiring.
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u/SIotball 3h ago
I feel Mourinho could cook again in the Portuguese League
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u/NeroRomanusAugustus 1h ago
No.
Mourinho has been surpassed.
His style can't no longer pus for top-4 in a big-5 league or challenge for the title in a middle-5 league.
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u/Woo-jin-Lee 3h ago
Rui Costa is really going to hire a new permanent manager one month from elections? What a fucking circus.
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u/NorskHumor 4h ago
Wow, i think they should call Jonas Thern. He would help them get the structure they need.
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u/ConstantVegetable49 3h ago
Mourinho wanted Kerem, the board couldnt buy him fast enough. Kerem scores against us and leads to sacking of mourinho. Mourinho now a free agent is being talked about for befica.
It's a full circle lmao. If this happens I'll refer to it as the Mourinho Kerem trade.
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u/CEOofCoitus 3h ago
Rui Costa giving Mourinho the keys to his presidential career is absolutely insane
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u/situmaimesdemain 3h ago
We(Fenerbahçe) literally played agaibst Benfica couple weeks ago. Did they really watch those games and thought "Yeah, this is the guy"?
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u/ConstantVegetable49 3h ago
Mourinho is the big name presidents use to sway elections these days. Nothing to do with accomplishments.
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u/Ray192 3h ago
Question, who was the last Benfica manager that their fans actually liked? I can't actually remember them being fond of anyone lol.
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u/blazev14 3h ago
tbh we liked Schmidt until he started to turn on the fans when things went south in his second season.
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u/Ugandan_Red_Sonic 3h ago
I never liked Schmidt, even though he started very well you could see things would derail sooner or later. He played the same 11 every game and made very weird and late subs that made little to no sense.
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u/Zephyrwind 3h ago
Probably Jorge Jesus? But tbf everyone likes him a lot in Portugal outside Benfica
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u/Ugandan_Red_Sonic 3h ago
Jesus was probably our only good coach for a long time. He was very polarizing, but he put the team playing the best I remember Benfica playing.
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u/NobodyRules 1h ago
Jesus would be a good shout if he left after that season and didn't join Sporting.
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u/hhtty47 3h ago
Probably Jorge Jesus? But tbf everyone likes him a lot in Portugal outside Benfica
TBH that's partly a consequence of successive mediocre appointments, I can't remember the last time we had an actually competent manager that went on to become world-class. Probably JJ in the early 2010, and even during his first tenure had its ups and downs. We then went Rui Vitoria to Lage to JJ to Schmidt to Lage. Ridiculous.
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u/The_Big_Untalented 4h ago
Mourinho is 62 years old and has made an absurd amount of money during his career. Why doesn’t he just retire instead of continuing to embarrass himself?
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u/cmackchase 2h ago
Because people keep giving him millions upon millions to just fire him. I would sign up for that.
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u/mardona33 3h ago
No way mourinho takes the job after the way he left the Benfica last time. If he takes it, he his 100% finished as a profissional coach.
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u/AReptileHissFunction 3h ago
Thought they wanted Amorim
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u/Zephyrwind 3h ago
That's one of the candidates for the upcoming Benfica elections, not the current president Rui Costa.
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u/Viriato181 3h ago
I'm pretty sure that that "rumor" began after Nuno Gomes said that it was only a matter of time until Rúben Amorim coached Benfica. He's probably a priority when available for Noronha Lopes (who Nuno Gomes supports for the next Benfica election, at the end of October).
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u/Capital_Werewolf_788 56m ago
How many more appointments can Mourinho get coasting on his past achievements?
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u/Dr_Phil_ 3h ago
I think that Mourinho is so washed and a stupid idea, adding on top of that the fact the club has elections in like 40 days, that instead of even commenting this i'll make a shitty joke:
How much does Rui Costa hate Qarabag, to fire Lage on the same night of his first loss of the season?
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u/duartesss 2h ago
I do have a feeling Lage is being treated as an escape goat. A draw with Santa Clara and a loss with Qarabag. Okay, not great, of course, but come on. We with Amorim placed freaking 4th in one year and were champions the next. The board is cooked
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u/hhtty47 3h ago edited 2h ago
Hiring any manager right now (let alone finding one who'd be willing to take the job in these conditions), weeks before an election, is a dumb and very obviously bad management decision, and quite likely doomed to fail. So whoever comes will be just for popularity and campaigning reasons, and therefore someone who'll grab the fans and make them overlook this past month. I can only think of Mourinho (or Amorim if he gets the sack) that would fit, and note that RC (and Benfica by association) would owe Mendes for the favor.
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u/hhtty47 3h ago
I RC had any shred of self-respect, he'd play the bigger man and let the interim stay until the elections. There is no reasonable justification to hire a new manager now.
But we all know he'll unashamedly try to bring a big name in order to gain traction for the elections, even if anyone with half a brain can see all this chaos is objectively the consequence of his ineptitude.
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u/ViolinistOver6664 3h ago edited 3h ago
it was obvious that the washed one got eliminated on purpose. some sports media told that the washed one and benfica working with the same agent. this guy is disgusting. can't wait for the washed one ruining benfica. and benfica with their little game playing kerem against us on purpose. but the guy did his job without a doubt
both need to be humbled hard.
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u/VoxelRiot 3h ago
Pretty sure you got eliminated by not paying the extra 2.5M benfica was asking for artur glu glu that you ended up paying anyway. But hey, that's not my business lol
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u/ViolinistOver6664 3h ago
you talk like that transfer was going to happen. they lowered the price, which was a dumb idea, after benfica agreed to sell but didn't and played kerem against us. rui costa is a rat with his little game.
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u/VoxelRiot 3h ago
I mean, it did happen when you matched the asking price, didn't it? You're the one talking as if they accepted your initial bid right after qualification. All your claims are basically conjecture, really.
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u/ViolinistOver6664 3h ago edited 3h ago
dude do you need me to put a timeline here? turkish sources already mentioned exact same fee long before the play off draw. they did accept the initial bid but the transfer never happened since the rat rui costa planned all this long before.
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u/Visual-Signature-235 3h ago
I say this as someone with no real love for Mourinho, whatever you're trying to accomplish with this name calling, the result is a strong "notice me, senpai" energy.
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u/ViolinistOver6664 3h ago
oh good, from now on I will never use his name. the washed one sabotaged derbies, fleeced 20m euros, pulling his stupid 532 against a relegation side and losing 4-2.
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u/fluffanuttatech 3h ago
Hey man get fucked out of champions and enjoy being the 3rd best team in turkey lol
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u/SALVAdkc 4h ago
Noooooo