{"id":5925,"date":"2025-07-13T05:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5925\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T05:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:08:03","slug":"benfica-ready-to-pay-e25m-but-not-a-dime-more-for-joao-felix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5925\/","title":{"rendered":"Benfica ready to pay \u20ac25m but not a dime more for Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bomb Squad lead singer Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix recently spoke<\/a> of his not-so-secret desire to move back to Benfica, the club where made his breakthrough, to try to rekindle his career under manager Bruno Lage, but the financial realities of the situation continue to make that a difficult proposition.<\/p>\n

Even if F\u00e9lix were to agree to cut down his wages significantly, Benfica are having trouble coming up with a transfer fee large enough to get Chelsea to the negotiating table in the first place. Reports earlier this week<\/a> even claimed that Benfica would somehow try to acquire just a percentage of the player\u2019s rights, which is not allowed under FIFA regulations, strongly opposed by UEFA (though not banned outright), and most pertinently, fully outlawed in English football.<\/p>\n

More recently, A Bola<\/a> have claimed that Benfica could scrounge \u20ac25m together, which they are hoping that F\u00e9lix\u2019s agent, Jorge Mendes could somehow convince Chelsea to accept. If anyone can do that, it\u2019s probably Mendes, though getting Chelsea to take a 50 per cent loss on F\u00e9lix in just 12 months could be a beyond even his abilities.<\/p>\n

The report then adds that even if somehow the two teams could agree a deal, the wage issue would be another massive hurdle to overcome. So it doesn\u2019t sound like we\u2019re making much, if any progress in this situation. This move certainly would benefit all involved, but at the moment there isn\u2019t enough goodwill to just let it happen. (The report also insinuates that after the Enzo<\/a> Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a> saga<\/a>, Chelsea are not exactly bending over backwards to accommodate Benfica … and rightly so.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bomb Squad lead singer Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix recently spoke of his not-so-secret desire to move back to Benfica, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[571,469,6328,3263,474,477,6330,478,6334,2101,424,471,473,6332,6335,5465,6331,472,1474,6333,4812,6329,403,99,470,826,475,404],"class_list":["post-5925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-a","tag-ain","tag-benfica","tag-but","tag-chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news","tag-chelsea-transfer-news-rumours","tag-dime","tag-english-premier-league-transfers-news-rumors","tag-f","tag-for","tag-front-page","tag-got","tag-history","tag-jo","tag-lix","tag-m","tag-more","tag-no","tag-not","tag-o","tag-pay","tag-ready","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-t","tag-to","tag-transfer-rumors","tag-we"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}