Bernardo Silva

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Psychedelic Casual said:
He doesn’t exactly not want to stay. But he just wants to play for Benfica before he’s too old.

Here are the most recent quotes I can find;

‘I have two more years on my Manchester City contract. My contract would end at 31. I won't hide that my goal in the coming years, if something good happens elsewhere, will probably be to move to a new project.

But going into a new project at the age of 29, I'll only finish this contract probably at 34. If you ask me: what did you think 10 years ago? My goal was to return to Benfica at the age of 32 at the most. What do I think today? It depends on what happens next summer.

I'm not going to lie: it's not something I don't think about. I think about it every year. It has always been a goal. I couldn't fulfil my dream of playing for Benfica when I was 19, 20 years old, but I still want to fulfil it. It's something I think about.

When I was about to leave Manchester City two years ago, that would go right, at 32. Now it won't go right if I leave, and I don't know if that will happen, a club that pays what City want for me won't give me a three-year contract, they will give me a five-year contract. And I'd already be 34 years old.

Being very realistic: for me to leave Manchester City for Benfica, or to leave another great European for Benfica, I cannot leave with two or three years on my contract, because Benfica do not have the money to pay these clubs; I have to go free. I'm in a difficult situation that I have to manage, but we'll see what happens’.

He seems laidback about it but most of all - understandably, just like we would as City fans and happened to be professional players - wants to play for the club he supports while he can still make a difference with them (he only ever made three substitute appearances for Benfica when he was a young lad). He’d like a new project (Pep puts more demands on Bernardo than probably any other player with the expectation to run and run and run and in different positions from one month to the next) but understands that it won’t allow him to play for Benfica at a young enough age if he leaves City… and City don’t want him to leave.
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Those quotes give me hope that he will see out the remaining two years of his contract and if we're lucky maybe even sign a one year extension. He could then leave on a free and go to Benfica at 32 like he planned.
 
David El Mago Silva said:
Those quotes give me hope that he will see out the remaining two years of his contract and if we're lucky maybe even sign a one year extension. He could then leave on a free and go to Benfica at 32 like he planned.
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And when at age 36 he's finished at Benfica, perhaps by then Barça can afford his wages & pick him up on a free... Win/win! :-)
 
Since it now seems PSG is going to sign Dembele, maybe they got the memo that Bernardo isn't available.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
He doesn’t exactly not want to stay. But he just wants to play for Benfica before he’s too old.

Here are the most recent quotes I can find;

‘I have two more years on my Manchester City contract. My contract would end at 31. I won't hide that my goal in the coming years, if something good happens elsewhere, will probably be to move to a new project.

But going into a new project at the age of 29, I'll only finish this contract probably at 34. If you ask me: what did you think 10 years ago? My goal was to return to Benfica at the age of 32 at the most. What do I think today? It depends on what happens next summer.

I'm not going to lie: it's not something I don't think about. I think about it every year. It has always been a goal. I couldn't fulfil my dream of playing for Benfica when I was 19, 20 years old, but I still want to fulfil it. It's something I think about.

When I was about to leave Manchester City two years ago, that would go right, at 32. Now it won't go right if I leave, and I don't know if that will happen, a club that pays what City want for me won't give me a three-year contract, they will give me a five-year contract. And I'd already be 34 years old.

Being very realistic: for me to leave Manchester City for Benfica, or to leave another great European for Benfica, I cannot leave with two or three years on my contract, because Benfica do not have the money to pay these clubs; I have to go free. I'm in a difficult situation that I have to manage, but we'll see what happens’.

He seems laidback about it but most of all - understandably, just like we would as City fans and happened to be professional players - wants to play for the club he supports while he can still make a difference with them (he only ever made three substitute appearances for Benfica when he was a young lad). He’d like a new project (Pep puts more demands on Bernardo than probably any other player with the expectation to run and run and run and in different positions from one month to the next) but understands that it won’t allow him to play for Benfica at a young enough age if he leaves City… and City don’t want him to leave.
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It all makes a lot of sense when put like that.

I’m sure that City would do a favourable deal with Benfica in a couple of years that makes everyone happy.

We’ve got a good relationship with them haven’t we.
 
domalino said:
For the 1,000th time, De Jong has normal wages. The only reason his wages get reported as being super high is because Barcelona didn't pay him at all during covid and had to pay him 3 years salary last year.

The Bernardo new contract will see him get paid far more than De Jong is getting.
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Is this definitely true? Never seen this before personally.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Is this definitely true? Never seen this before personally.
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JewelZee said:
Why would he be the only one on the squad in this situation? I'm going with absolute nonsense...
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He’s not the only one in the squad with the same situation, Barca owed Pique tens of millions in unpaid wages when he retired.

De Jong’s contract was leaked by Barcelona during the stand off last year .

He signed a contract for €14 m a year - £220k a week, with bonuses adding another 1-3m.

In 2020 Barcelona reduced all players salaries by 12%, which is why he only got €12.3m in 19/20.

Then Barcelona and De Jong agreed to defer €11m of salary in 20-21 and €4m in 21-22 and his bonuses to help them with their financial crisis.

Now they have to pay him €15m of deferred salary on top of his normal wages for the next 4 years.

They also deferred his loyalty bonus, which is supposed to be ~€2m a year, and that has to be paid out now.

So instead of earning about £220k/week plus a few million in performance bonuses which is the contract he agreed to in 2019,
Barcelona are going to have to pay him about 2.5x that much.

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The details of De Jong's contract: His fixed salary, bonuses, deferred payments...

Barcelona are currently negotiating the transfer of Frenkie de Jong with Manchester United. The Dutchman's departure is not a sporting issue, but an economic one, as the Catalan cl
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None of this is new info, it all came out last summer and was backed up by half a dozen papers in Spain. Just because you’ve missed it doesn’t make it nonsense @JewelZee. Look in the FDJ thread last year and it was discussed at length.
 
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