When confronted with swirling reports that his manager has already agreed to join Real Madrid, Benfica president Rui Costa found himself repeating the same five words: “José Mourinho is Benfica’s coach.”
Mourinho cast considerable doubt over his own future over the weekend when he confirmed that negotiations with Madrid had been opened. The Portuguese coach had not yet accepted any proposal and would first have to judge whether he could fulfil the demands set before him by the club’s embattled president Florentino Pérez.
