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Maybe afford the others the respect you want for yourselves. That's a good way of looking at things.

And I would listen to you for what reason? How the fuck a Benfica fan come on another forum and start being all high and mighty is beyond me.
 

Doesn't want to upset the Benfica fans. I get it. 
Enzo is integral for them as well. 

Remember they will owe 25% of whatever they get for Enzo to River Plate.
If he was sold for €80M they only get €60M of that. While it's still €45M profit for six months I doubt that would be anywhere near enough to get him in the middle of a season so might as well stand their ground and improve their chances of winning the league title and having a decent UCL run with Enzo in the team. They would no doubt get the same €80m for him in the summer if it came to that.
Nothing wrong with Benfica's stance. 

Nothing that comes out on this rag is to be trusted. Yesterday he would leave for sure and today is staying but actually nothing has changed besides they maybe managed to dupe some fools into buying a few more papers. 

"No means no"
"Rui Costa remains inflexible, Enzo only for the release clause"
"Chelsea offers 100m euros plus players"
Told you guys this newspaper is a rag. Also I call bullshit on that last statement, Chelsea has not made any new offers.

Again nothing is impossible, but as I stated Record is a rag. I don't think we will even sit down to talk right now. Unless Chelsea can pay the release clause up front he's staying. 

Record is a journalistic rag that has no credibility whatsoever. They just asked some random "football agent" and plastered it in the front cover so they could sell a few more units. There's even a lower chance that we sell them now than before. We already bought 3 players and that fills the 3 registration slots available for the champions league. Never say never but I think it's almost impossible that he goes in this transfer window.  

If its the right player we could probably do it just like we doing with Nkunku. 

That could make sense but it's now a matter of principle. If you ask 100 Benfica fans right now if we should sell one cent bellow the release clause price tag 99 will say not to sell. I can see us in the summer window being open to that kind of a transfer, also because 25% of the money of the sale will go to River Plate, so including a player or two wouldn't be bad for us. 

Thank you. That's exactly it. Benfica last president always put our success on the pitch second to making big sales and because of that even though we are the richest club in Portugal we haven't won a single trophy in more than 3 years. Rui Costa took the job about a year ago and he promissed that the club number one priority from then on would be to win silverware. We are not cheating or playing hardball with anyone. The plan was to buy a couple more players in January and really make a push for the title and try to make it as far as possible in the champions league. We really don't want to sell. Rui Costa even offered to pay Enzo a few more million euros so he would stay until the end of the season. Only when Enzo refused and stated that he really wanted to go did Rui Costa agreed to negotiate a payment structure, thats it, selling him for under the value of the release clause was never an option. I feel bad for Enzo, because he seems like a good kid, but when you wave tens of millions in front of him anyone would be tempted. I believe that if he stays he'll get some pushback from the fans but in the long run we will forgive him and support him because he's a baller.

Thank you. That's exactly it. Benfica last president always put our success on the pitch second to making big sales and because of that even though we are the richest club in Portugal we haven't won a single trophy in more than 3 years. Rui Costa took the job about a year ago and he promissed that the club number one priority from then on would be to win silverware. We are not cheating or playing hardball with anyone. The plan was to buy a couple more players in January and really make a push for the title and try to make it as far as possible in the champions league. We really don't want to sell. Rui Costa even offered to pay Enzo a few more million euros so he would stay until the end of the season. Only when Enzo refused and stated that he really wanted to go did Rui Costa agreed to negotiate a payment structure, thats it, selling him for under the value of the release clause was never an option. I feel bad for Enzo, because he seems like a good kid, but when you wave tens of millions in front of him anyone would be tempted. I believe that if he stays he'll get some pushback from the fans but in the long run we will forgive him and support him because he's a baller.

I'm in awe of your entitlement. Did Benfica contact Chelsea to sell Enzo or was it the other way around? Benfica is a football club and we want to win silverware, that's it. Your club knew the conditions of the deal upfront. Imagine being outraged because a club doesn't want to sell one of his best players in the January window bellow the release clause. Delusional.