- بنفيكا in middle of a hotly contested presidential election
- Candidate Carvalho promises to replace Bruno Lage
- Carvalho’s preferred choice is Jurgen Klopp
The 2025 Benfica presidential election is heating up, with candidates making ambitious and often sensational promises to win over the club’s supporters. The race has already seen candidates like Joao Noronha Lopes make big promises of bringing Bernardo Silva back from مانشستر سيتي. Now, another candidate, Carvalho, has made the most significant pledge yet, promising to dismiss current coach Bruno Lage at the end of the season and replace him with ex-ليفربول manager Klopp, a coach he believes can lead Benfica to a دوري أبطال أوروبا عنوان.
Candidates are not just vying for power but are presenting radically different visions for the club’s strategic direction. While some candidates like Noronha Lopes focus on player recruitment, and Joao Diogo Manteigas on club values and governance, Carvalho has gone for a big-name managerial appointment. The move is a direct challenge to the current administration and a clear statement of Carvalho’s intent to bring Benfica back to the elite level of European football.
Speaking with SIC Noticias Carvalho laid out his plan for the club’s managerial future, insisting that a Champions League-winning coach is essential to his project.
He said: “With me, Bruno Lage won’t stay beyond his contract [which ends at the end of the season]. I need a coach of the highest level, who has already won the Champions League and who wants to win a Champions League with Benfica. There’s only one name that comes to mind: Jurgen Klopp. He even said that Benfica is a great club that he would like to coach one day. Someone who says this has something more than others to be at the club.”
Klopp joined آر بي لايبزيغ this January and is currently serving as the Head of Global Soccer and has a contract with the club that runs until 2029. The Benfica presidential election on October 25 is a battle for the club’s future and Benfica supporter’s will hope for the best man to win. However, it will be difficult to bring Klopp, who has already stated that he might never return to football management.
