The midfielder of Manchester City, Bernardo Silva, approaches a potential summer closer exit The club reports that he accelerates in his homeland Portugal State as the necessary reconstruction at the Etihad Stadium.
On the back of a historic fourth Premier League title last season, City is now exposed to the risk of her worst departure under the management of Pep Guardiola. There are also no guarantees that they will even qualify for the Champions League of the next season.
The squad has reached its natural process – as Silva said itself – and the reset began in January when more than £ 170 million was spent on Omar Marmouth, Nico Gonzalez, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis. And while Ilkay Gundogan stays for another year, Kevin de Bruyne is gone in summer and Kyle Walker has already gone. Now Silva could also go on the door and a farewell.
In Portugal, A bola writes that a proposed return to the former Benfica association is progressing. There is “optimism” of the Lisbon giants that an agreement can be achieved and that the “basics” were laid in early conversations with Silva and Manchester City.
Benfica tries to invest and recruit Silva (30) as a symbol for this commitment, as well as a thrust in the sporting sense. It could also be an opportunity for the club to replace the 37-year-old Angel di Maria, although it is possible that the veteran winger will remain anyway.
Silva comes from Lisbon and started his career with Benfica from the age of eight. As a teenager, he went to the first team, but only made three appearances before moving a career to move to Monaco. There he was part of an exciting team that defeated Paris Saint-Germain on the Ligue 1 title in 2016/17 and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.
There was interest from Manchester United, but Silva joined 43.5 million GBP this summer and has played almost 400 games for the club in almost eight seasons since then. But his future in Manchester has been unsure since 2020 when he was unsettled for the first time during the Covid 19 blocking, with the interest of Barcelona and PSG in recent years.