Benfica caretaker manager Nelson Verissimo is hoping the club can earn upwards of £100million from the sale of star player Darwin Nunez.
The 22-year-old has been heavily linked with an exit from the Portuguese club this summer after an impressive campaign.
Nunez has scored 31 goals across all competitions this season and is attracting interest from a host of top clubs.
, , and Paris Saint-Germain are among the clubs mooted as potential destinations for the Uruguay international.
Should he be sold in the near future, Verissimo wants a fee similar to the one Benfica earned when they offloaded Joao Felix to Atletico Madrid in 2019 – £113m.
‘Darwin is an excellent player, he has shown all his quality. He has helped the team a lot, it is true that the team has also helped him a lot,’ Verissimo told reporters.
‘He is a young player with a lot of potential, it is natural that given what has been his growth throughout this season and also a lot as a result of the performance he has had in the games, it is natural that he arouses the interest of the big European clubs.
‘It will be at the end of this season or the following season, depending on what he has shown, it is natural that it will arouse interest from other clubs and naturally there may be the time in which he goes.
‘Now regarding numbers, I hope as a Benfica fan that he will go for numbers close to those that were Joao Felix’s numbers. Now it’s not for me to enter numbers on that field.
‘In what is my day to day with the player, in what is given to us to observe in training and in the games, naturally we are looking at a top player and all the top players arouse the interest of the big European clubs. Darwin is on that list, obviously.’
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