The track is not new but has gained intense contours in recent weeks: Diego Costa, 32-year-old Brazilian striker, and Benfica are available to listen to the arguments of each side and try to reconcile interests.
Which is like saying, to try a platform of understanding that will allow the player to compete again next season. In this sense, a meeting is planned, in the coming days, to try to reach this understanding.
The name of Diego Costa was placed on the table of the SAD benfiquista last summer, through Jorge Mendes, who represents the striker. Benfica still studied the viability of the deal, but the dream at the time was called Edinson Cavani and the dragging of negotiations with the Uruguayan ended up not allowing evolution in the case of Diego Costa.
From a then unreal dream, the situation may, however, have seen developments. Now without a club and willing to return to the limelight, the player accepts to negotiate for lower values. Yesterday in Spain the ‘Mundo Deportivo’ newspaper reported that Benfica is a player they would already have understood each other, something that, A BOLA knows, has not yet happened.
According to the data collected by our newspaper, Luís Filipe Vieira will be considering offering Diego Costa € 2.5 million of annual salary plus a subscription premium that can reach € 3 million.
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