The former president of Santos condemns: “The possibility of selling Lucas Veríssimo to Benfica is mediocre” – Benfica

José Carlos Peres was president of Santos for three years until he suffered a ‘political trial’ and ended up forcibly leaving his post in November. The former director of Peixe left several criticisms of the current management, one of them in relation to the situation of Lucas Veríssimo. “I think this possibility of selling it to Benfica is mediocre, surreal,” he said in statements to the ‘Diário do Peixe’ channel on YouTube.

Peres guaranteed that the Brazilian club had better proposals before that of Benfica, which stands at 6.5 million euros. “Lucas, since I joined, had this desire to go to Europe, which is his dream and we have to respect it. We sold him in 2018 but the agreement with the Russians was not finalized. Show what he was going to win, but he says no signed it. There was a big discussion, the Russians [do Spartak Moscovo] They were nervous, everything was fixed, but unfortunately there was a problem and it was not our fault. So you have to see both sides. The value was 7.5 million euros clean compared to 80% of Santos. In the end, the deal didn’t go through and it wasn’t our fault. But you can talk more about the situation, “he explained, guaranteeing that Lucas Veríssimo previously had another proposal for more than” 10 million euros for Torino. ”