Solitaire game. Benfica and Braga have spoken in the past few hours based on the Eagles’ desire to bring a player who trained there until under 17 years old to the Red House.

Ricardo Horta, 27, since 2017 in Arsenal’s service, is one of the men Benfica wanted to be the pillar of the new project designed by SAD incarnate, with Rui Costa and Rui Pedro Braz at the helm, to Roger Schmidt, the coach who should become Officially next week as the new captain of Team Luz.

The people of Braga have been aware of the interest in Benfica for a few weeks – Antonio Salvador, president of SC Braga, and Rui Costa, leader of Benfica, have already spoken on the subject – and if at an early stage, Salvador has begun to point out the value of the termination clause de Horta (€30m) In the latter methods, the values ​​on the table were much lower, but still far from what each motto understands as acceptable to do business. On Minho’s side, there will be little chance of a 15 million euro cut, an amount that was on the table a year ago for transfer abroad. On the red side, the goal is to lower this value by including passes by wing Gil Dias and right-side Joao Ferreira, players who please the structure of the arsenal.

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