Midfielder

Perhaps before the election of Benfica, not many people thought that Azevedo would fail. After all, in the two years when this guy was the chairman, Benfica's performance was relatively stable. Although they did not win the league championship, their economic situation was much better than their rivals in the same city.

With a strong economic backing, Benfica, like Porto, has begun to gradually accumulate advantages in the competition among the top three teams in Portugal. Looking at the embarrassing transfer transactions of Sporting Lisbon, you can say that Azevedo has laid a solid foundation for Benfica.

Even the members of G14 have absorbed Benfica as the next observation object, which indirectly proves Azevedo's achievements. At least from the perspective of the team's management, he has kept Benfica at a benign operating level with steady growth.

Perhaps his only shortcoming is his shortcomings in competition. Neither Heynckes nor the German's predecessors have been able to bring Benfica the league championship, and they have not achieved any decent results in the European arena. This has to be said to be a pity.

Although Azevedo can bring a good economic environment to Benfica, his lack of progress in honors has given competitors many opportunities to attack.

Otherwise, when Mourinho first came to Benfica, there would not be so many people who opposed this guy's succession, because many people thought that this was another blind choice of Azevedo at the competitive level.

But Mourinho did not let Azevedo become a laughing stock again. His performance in leading Benfica has surpassed the club's original expectations. Benfica, which had once become a mid-level team in the Portuguese Super League, has become one of the favorites to win the championship in his hands.

This is also why Villariño dislikes Mourinho. If this guy hadn't been in the way, maybe he wouldn't have considered using other methods to win this presidential election.

Just like no one thought Azevedo would fail, maybe no one dreamed of where Azevedo would fall.

He had never been at a disadvantage since the beginning of the campaign. Even before the last 24 hours, Azevedo had not considered that he would fail. When he was talking to Mourinho on the phone, he even invited Mourinho to come to his house for a dinner after the game.

But reality is so playful. When Azevedo was preparing to celebrate his upcoming re-election with a luxurious dinner, the Portuguese court sent Azevedo a summons.

"Azevedo will be summoned by the court for suspected theft of club funds." This notice does not need to be explained any more. The facts are very clear. Azevedo was shocked by the reversal at the last moment.

When Azevedo built a solid economic foundation for Benfica, he also tied his future to Benfica's chariot, and tied it quite tightly. Even part of the club's funds became the reserve funds flowing on his personal company's books.

Money laundering, false accounting, and misappropriation of club funds have become a default unspoken rule in Portugal. Azevedo was not spared in this position. When he was building the Benfica Club, he was also filling his own treasury with Benfica's money.

But Azevedo did not expect that he would be found out one day. Maybe he was too familiar with financial operations, or he had too many partners in the Benfica team, so he could walk safely to this day.

But there is no impenetrable wall in the world. What happened in the club will always be told by someone. And Villariño cut off Azevedo's source of income at the most critical moment. He would rather sacrifice some of the club's interests and drive his opponent off the podium.

It's just that he did this very covertly. He did not use anyone to expose Azevedo, but Machado, the chairman of the Guimaraes Club who had business dealings with Azevedo, became his target. Pulling out the carrot brings out the mud. This truth is not only understood by the Chinese.

Azevedo, who was also involved in this interest circle, fell. Even if he had brought countless money to Benfica, he could not cover up the fact that he was using the Benfica team to make money for himself.

Villariño still thinks he has won, even though he has destroyed the economic myth of Benfica Club and gained control of the club.

At least now he has enough time to build his own Benfica Club. The political struggle of football is so cruel and ruthless.

Maybe Azevedo thought of who did all this behind the scenes when he was prosecuted, but he was powerless to save anything.

A person who embezzles and misappropriates club funds cannot be trusted and respected by others. The balance of the presidential election tilted in an instant.

Regardless of whether Azevedo will be imprisoned for such things in the future, at least he has lost the most crucial battle. Benfica no longer belongs to him, and his successor will quickly erase all traces of Azevedo in Benfica.

Including sports and finances, Portugal's TSF Radio has already said in its report that Benfica will open a new page.

Villariño took 24 hours to complete the reversal in the election, but he did not feel relieved. He still needs a few months to fully control the future of Benfica, which will be a future with Villariño's mark.

"Tony is my head coach. Mourinho knows he is not my choice. If he is sincere, he should agree to resign after I am elected." Villariño's first speech after taking office was so straightforward. He did not even communicate with Mourinho.

But Villariño's disgust for that guy is self-evident. In his view, he is just a pawn that Azevedo relies on to clean up his company's accounts, and now Mourinho is the only current staff member who has not called back to congratulate him.

For a person who is involved with Azevedo, Villariño has only one principle, that is, let him leave here, and leave forever.

There is no need for the guy who disobeys him to stay, and Villariño does not think that the novice can lead Benfica to any height at the competitive level.

In the operation of the club, Villariño knows that no matter how he operates, he can never surpass the glory created by Azevedo.

But in competition, he can make the guy who should go to jail feel ashamed. Now the club has a lot of transfer funds, and all he needs to do is spend money, even if it means buying players, to get the league championship back in the shortest possible time.

Mourinho obviously will not be considered by Villarinho, even if there is no relationship between them, Villarinho will not use him. Because in everyone's opinion, Mourinho is still too young, he has no experience in leading a championship team.

"A giant needs a famous coach to coach, not a novice!" Villarinho's second speech in one day was also about the team's future coach. It can be seen that he really wants to fire Mourinho immediately.

But the most troublesome thing now is that Benfica's performance has recovered too fast, so fast that Villarinho dare not act easily.

If the head coach is replaced when the team's performance is rising, if the performance can continue to soar, there will be no problem. But once there is a fluctuation, then Villarinho's first shot will become a pretext for others to attack him, so Villarinho now hopes that Mourinho can take the initiative to leave.

But the guy's silence made Villariño very dissatisfied. He needed a sufficient excuse to get rid of this guy, but now he could only warn like this, instead of directly waving a broom to clear Mourinho out.

When the current head coach is still leading the team to the throne of the league championship, someone behind him is blatantly dismantling the stage. You have to say that Benfica is really a weird club.

You can only say how much Villariño is eager to make Benfica his own world immediately. He can no longer tolerate anyone or anything left by his predecessor to hinder himself.

When others are considering how to keep the team stable, Benfica is thinking about how to mess with its own team, although the name is for honor.

Any shameless person will find a high-sounding reason before looking for a reason to discipline others, and Villariño is no exception. It's just that he seems more straightforward or shameless. He is even too lazy to hide his dislike for Mourinho in front of others.

When Lin Yi and Mourinho saw the news in the hotel in Cebatul, they were speechless, then raised the bottles of wine at hand and bumped them hard. Maybe drinking is the best way to relieve troubles at this time.

"If that guy knew that I was drinking with you, he might sue me in court tomorrow, saying that I am an instigator and have corrupted the future star of Benfica." Mourinho said to Lin Yi, who was drinking for the first time.

Mourinho tried to pull a smile at the corner of his mouth while speaking, to prove that the joke he just told still had a certain lethality, but he looked like he could never be happy, which made Lin Yi even more depressed.

"If that old guy Villariño knew we were drinking together, maybe he would find a way to remove me from the Benfica team list as quickly as possible. Then he would kick me in the ass and kick me back to the youth team, or kick me out of the door directly. In his eyes, I am still a child, not a professional player, not the kind of person he wants."

Lin Yi tasted the taste of beer for the first time, but he didn't realize that this thing could make people intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves.

In Lin Yi's mind, the only thing that could not be extricated was his teeth, which had nothing to do with the bottle in his hand.

The bitter taste made him lose interest, but his irritable mood made him pick up the bottle and drink it for the first time. Not for anything else, just to sit in the hotel room with Mourinho to release depression and bless the unknown future of the two people.

Mourinho didn't know why he and Lin Yi drank beer in the hotel room. Maybe it was because this kid was the only one who ran over to hug his shoulders and asked if he needed any help. Although he was only 15 years old, at that moment, this kid was like an adult.

As for drinking. . Mourinho didn't want to explain too much. As long as it wasn't drugs and cigarettes, Mourinho rarely intervened in the private lives of his players. However, letting a 15-year-old drink alcohol would really cause other people to talk nonsense.

So the two of them could only stay in Mourinho's room and drink together. Especially when they watched Villarinho talking nonsense on TV, they would look even more melancholy. Neither of them had much confidence in the future.

"Close my eyes, and I see my future... I thought I would stay here for a long time..." Mourinho said.

"I also thought that at least in the next three to five years, I would not have the opportunity to sleep until 8 o'clock in the morning and get up again." Lin Yi also responded with a bitter smile.

"It seems that we are all wrong. God always likes to change other people's lives, that damn old guy." Mourinho drank the rest of the beer, and then watched the fat pig on TV continue to brag about the future of Benfica, but now it seems that all this has nothing to do with him.

"That old bastard is used to making people live in uncertainty, and I've been used to it for a long time. This is just another time he teases others for fun. Cheers to that damn fat pig and that damn God." Lin Yi also drank up his beer, but his irritable mood never eased. He didn't know if his tomorrow would be as uncertain as Mourinho's.

When everything started to get better, the damn God played a joke on him again, and maybe everything would return to the starting point.

Without Mourinho's scolding and roaring at the sidelines every day, Lin Yi himself would feel uncomfortable, but at this moment he couldn't change anything.

Maybe what he could do now was to get drunk with that guy in this not-so-spacious room, and not think about the damn future for the time being.

The two of them had a poor alcohol tolerance. They drank too much at almost the same time. At the moment when they both lay on the floor, they almost muttered a sentence at the same time.

"Damn, that pig-like guy really made a disgusting decision..."

Then there was only a slight snoring in the room. . . As for the turmoil outside, it has nothing to do with these two guys for the time being. . . Football? Villariño? Championship? Screw it, sleep peacefully, no one knows what will happen tomorrow.

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