In the long term Benfica benefits from this strategy because it uses its funds on improving infrastructure and buying more talent while remaining under fan control. So in 20 years we will see.

When I was a kid, I remember seeing a documentary here in the UK all about how Ajax was considered the best club to join as a young player because their whole business model was to showcase you at a young age & sell you to an even bigger club for profit. So I was quite surprised that they weren't top of the list, but was fascinated to hear the reasons behind Benfica usurping them!

Ederson is a Benfica Academy player. He was sold to Rio Ave with a buy back clause of 500K. You said it like Rio Ave sold him for 500K because they wanted.

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Goalkeepers: Oblak or Ederson Defenders: João Cancelo, Ruben Dias, David Luis, Nelson Semedo Mitfielders: Bernardo Silva, Matic, Renato Sanches Attackers: Di Maria, Darwin Nunez, Joao Felix I just did this for fun to create a strong 11 but yeah keep in mind that I have missed a lot of great players like Ramires Jimenez etc

Still the best sport content on KZfaq in my view, just love how everything is explained regardless of the sport

I think the key to having success for clubs like Benfica is to have a golden generation that can be convinced to stick together for a few years to achieve greatness, almost like Ajax did a few years ago before players like de Jong, de Ligt, Ziyech, etc. left.

06:10 Eu realmente apreciei o esforço hahha e sim, fiquei curioso para ver o que estava escrito ao ver que estava em português. Ótimo vídeo, como sempre.

Athletic never ceases to amaze with variety of their topics covered in their videos And I love it !❤️

As a benfica fan it’s very heartbreaking to see the top players always going away. And it creates a constant cycle of the roster, and it becomes impossible to create a solid team. But besides all the financial pressures, the players want to move the more prestigious leagues, like England, and it’s hard to hold them against their will. Even in spite of all the talent we may have , teams from little countries such Portugal, have no chance. The system ensures that only teams from big leagues may win the CL.

For those mentioning Ajax, Benfica is affected much more than them. They don’t even win the Portuguese league anymore as a result. Plus, Ajax isn't even the 2nd most affected; it's Porto. Portugal is the biggest talent hub in world football; no one else comes close. Some people mistake it's the Dutch league, but they're not comparable. As shown on the video on teams most affected, the Portugal league has four clubs with a total balance of over 1.5b, whilst the Dutch league only has one club, Ajax, with a total balance of 350m. We lose squads worth of talent every year, not a few players. If not for our population size Portugal league would have been a powerhouse; Unfortunately, that's not the case.

Unless teams can build a dynasty of young players with low wages, like Ajax in 2019, it's hard to think we'll see any Nottingham Forests winning the UCL again

That's the sad truth Benfica doesn't have oil money and billionaire owners like prem and other clubs have benfica it's from fans, they also don't have big TV rights because they play in a smaller league that's why they sell that's why that they are not the team they used to be, they are still good but it is not enough considering the history of the club the same goes for Ajax and others Football has changed on a bad way where only 💵 matters but i hope not only as a Benfica fan but also as a football fan that one day this will change again so that historical clubs like Benfica and Ajax can come back as european giants and fight for Champions league titles but to be honest i don't think it will happen anytime soon unfortunately 😔

Just to clarify, Ederson played for Benfica's U17 squad in 2009/10, he was then loaned to Rio Ave for 2 seasons and then came back to play for Benfica's B squad and senior squads between 2015 and 2017. He played for Benfica's U17, U19, B and senior sides, he's an academy player.

watching as a benfica supporter hurts 😔

As a Benfica fanatic myself, I must say your analysis is spot on. You have clearly done your research, well done!

I’m a Benfica fan and what you said it's completely true! If Benfica was in La Liga and not in the Portugal league, I'm sure that we could win many international competitions and be one of the best clubs in the world!

1:42 the Olympic lyon logo is definitely the Lille logo mhmmmh

Obrigado pelo carinho com seus espectadores em cada detalhe, inclusive na carta!

wow. Never thought I would see a such in depth analisys of my Club's situation. Já agora, 6:10 , detalhe incrível! Pena que está em português do Brasil e não Portugal

Great video as always Atheletic....Because I live in Amsterdam I would add that Ajax is in the same situation..unfortunately. They have to sell a few of their best players at the end of each season. Therefore they rebuild and have a new team every couple of seasons. Unfortunately that means it's hard to keep reaching the UCL finals...But I guess you already knew that :)

very well explained original content and most impottantly he keeps the video sponsor to the end of the video

Another fantastic video! This is fast becoming my favourite KZfaq channel. Beautiful visuals and good informaton. I've literally been checking daily for a new video to drop :) Which software do you use to make your videos? I remember seeing a link to a skill share course you studied to learn how to make videos, but now I can't find it 😢

1:37 olympique Lyon got losc Lille crest.

Eu aprecio bastante o esforço :) Obrigado, Athletic Interest e parabéns pelo vídeo incrível

An absolutely fascinating and wonderfully made video. This gives me a lot to think about. Thanks.

Gostei do que escreveram em português no documento. Parabéns pelo esforço. 🇧🇷💙 Love your videos❤ Really like the way you edit and the content itself. Keep on the great job. Congrats.🎉

At the end you used a "false" Benfica badge. It actually is from Viseu e Benfica, a team that plays in the last division of their own district😅 they used to be linked with Benfica, not anymore ig. You can see it's not Benfica's badge because it's written SVB instead of SLB :) Great video though, showing why Benfica has one of if not the best academy in the world but nowadays don't usually go that far... although this season has been quite good

Love the global economics behind football, thank you Athletic Interest! Keep up the good work!

Caralho!!! The amount of hard work put into this videos is simply fascinating! I've always loved each and every video made by the channel and also found every topic super interesting and well explained but the effort made at 6:10 just makes it all even better. It's pure art, really. No wonder it's the best Sports Channel on KZfaq... Uma pitada de humor sempre deixa o conteúdo ainda mais interessante e leve

As a Portuguese resident I really enjoyed watching this video, thanks for making this 🇵🇹❤️

Every time I see a upload of this channel I instantly click it and watch... never disappoints 🙌

Wow thank you so much for this awesome insight into our beloved sport!! Great video as always mate!!

The video just turned into a first year Econ class 😆 lol

Another amazing video by a amazing and iconic channel thank you very much for this interesting piece ❤❤❤❤.

At the 1:47 mark, you gave OL in France Lille Logo. Unsure if your able to correct that but just thought I would bring it your teams attention. Despite that, great content as always

Muito bom conteúdo como de costume. E as gracinhas sempre muito bem vindas.

Lille logo used for Lyon in the table. Great video.

A parte do documento apanhou-me de surpresa, excelente video!

6:10 muito boa a referência. Parabéns pelo esforço

The explanation of the connection between Portugal and Brazil is brilliant! Thanks for the high quality content and animation as always. Great work!

Great analysis!

When a rich club throws 100+m on a world class player's transfer, the ripple effects caused end up hindering the progress not only of the selling club but the other clubs the selling club may raid, and going down the same pyramid. Excessive money spent by other teams is the reason why true underdog stories are rare these days😢

I have listened to the intro itself more than 10 times and I can not get tired of it. Excellent channel.

The debt problem with Benfica is kinda insane with their transfer profits

This is brilliant ! 🔥Amazing content 👌🏾

This is unfortunately a growing trend with smaller clubs. They get worse and worse slices of the money pie every single year compared to the big clubs so they need to sell their better players. Lots of smaller clubs in the big leagues suffer from this as well, they get a few good players and instead of building a squad they sell them. The worst part is, even if the club's directive wanted to keep them, they risk the players themselves wanting to "upgrade" to bigger clubs and either not playing or waiting out for their contract to end. So in a way they're forced to sell their best players, because otherwise they might lose them for nothing. Money has ruined the passion for playing for your club

I was playing a lot of football manager since 2002. when you asked who makes the most, I was thinking of Ajax first then Portugal clubs, Sporting used to be the top but then I remembered how Benfica sells the top players, mainly strikers ever since like 2005ish.

Appreciated the effort! 06:10

The best channel undoubtedly! Love this!❤️

nice vid as always!

Wow. Indepth knowledge!

It's exactly the same situation in Uruguay only worse because we're even smaller (in population) than Portugal, 3.4 million people. The two big clubs (Peñarol and Nacional) take all the local talents and sell them go Europe, so the team it's totally new every year. And for that reason neither Peñarol or Nacional won a Libertadores again since 1988. But while out local teams suffer, by having a strong base and the possibility of the selection of every probable good player our national teams (Uruguay and Portugal) are extremely competitive despite having much smaller population. Having great positions in the world cup and even winning the Euro (for Portugal) and the Copa América (for Uruguay)

Love the subtle inclusion of Danny Ric. As a fan of both football and F1, an Easter egg is greatly appreciated

06:10 ahahah muito bom, parabéns!

I love the graphics used!!

lovely history, econs and finance video focused on football!

This channel is so good. I learn so much about the sport's business.

"Brazil and Portugal have complicated history " this channel should be paid each video is masterpiece salute from Brasil

1:35 "notice anything" yeah that Olympique Lyon badge looking kinda funny.

Lovely. Do a part 2 and expand on other clubs like Porto.

Another big problem for teams like Benfica and Porto is that half of the salary from the players is taxes so is very hard to keep up with teams from nethersland or teams from the top 5 For exemple: Benfica whanted Mario Gotze from PSV. But in the dutchland he wages 3mil+ and is totally impossible to a portuguese team get to this numbers because 3millions clean is equal to 6millions gross Portugal is a very hard market but even like that Benfica and Porto manage to be strong teams in Europe

Hey bro, Nice vídeo, great content…but the last badge of Benfica is wrong. Keep working in these vídeos, is very interesting

First i would like to congratulate you for this video that has a complete different insight of the general football videos. It honestly made me think about the conjecture of the market. Normal football fans like or to complicate or simplify transfers has "my club is better than yours" point of view. In the showcase Benfica follow´s a system that is only possible because the "normal" income for a club in such a small country would make it impossible to be competitive in Europe. If any person would make a starting eleven with the players sold by Benfica they could see that if Benfica had the income (without selling players) to retain their players they would be VERY competitive in Europe. That being said, i think that clubs like Real madrid/Barcelona and mostly the top 15 clubs in Premier League want and need immediate results has just being in the Premier League gives them more income that all the income in a club like Benfica. So ... i think they see clubs like Benfica or Ajax has a training ground for talent. They know they are paying the "big bucks" but they expect that players coming from those clubs are "Premier League ready". I´m using PL has an example because for me is by far the most competitive and where the best managers/players are and want to play. If you pick any middle club trying to use thys "system" in PL they would have a major hard time being competitive and mostly would be relegated sooner or later because all the other clubs they are competing against have "proved quality status". Where does that status come from? Benfica players are not bought mostly for their portuguese league stats. They are scouted playing against the major clubs in Champions League. Is there that if they show their quality and mature status they they get their "value" for playing in the PL. I would like to just leave one last comment for a player that in some videos is being criticised : João Felix! João was the biggest sale in Benfica, he went to Atletico Madrid because was the club that offered the most. A.M. has Simeone has a coach and a football system that is not build for creative players. Time will tell, but i think that in this loan to Chelsea you will all be able to see how special his football is. Thank you for the awesome video.

Best football/sports/sport business/animation/data/analysis/humor related content in KZfaq. Thank you!

Fantastic video! Love the economics of it.

Players F.C.Porto sold since 2010 Goalkeeper: José Sá (Wolves) Defenders: Ricardo(Leicester), Felipe (Atlético Madrid), Éder Militão (Real Madrid), Alex Telles (Manchester United) Midfielders: Danilo (PSG), Vitinha (PSG), Rúben Neves (Wolves) Attackers: James Rodríguez (Al-Rayyan SC), Falcão (Rayo Vallecano), Luis Diaz (Liverpool) Other players like André Silva, Jesus Corona, Oliver Torres, Jackson Martínez have also been sold in the last few years!

Your videos are so good 👍👍👍👍👍

Oh yes my Benfica & still the most it can do is reach the quarter finals in the UCL! Basically Benfica Porto Sporting and the portuguese league in general is like we usually say in Portugal the football school of Europe - we get young promising players still developing their game and then when they reach the desired point we sell them for a big profit so we can bring more players and train them and sell them for a lot more and the cicle continues. Still UCL finals still continues to be a forbidden fruit although conquered but long time ago.

The key is really in striking a balance between the business side and the results side. Benfica fans have made peace with signing strong names fit for boosting shirt sales like Vertonghen, Otamendi and Weigl that are great to talk about but don't really deliver consistently as they once did. Obviously the fans would love for Benfica to be a strong European contender but the strategy has been for money making and not for glory. Their former president always promised great European runs and always failed to deliver still people would elect him to new terms. Until recently management didn't really seem that interested in Europe and coach Jorge Jesus disregarded the European competitions because he knew that most people are realistic and would prefer to be domestic champions than to have a quarter or semi final loss and risk losing it all. Benfica's president left because he is under fiscal investigation leaving his vice president in office. He then called elections and won but really the plan seems to be the same for now, only time will tell if he has enough charisma to change deeply set mentalities within the club. And also, as with Porto, the "profit" is heavily diluted when you account for the sums delivered to the many agents, scouts, youth teams and others involved in the transfers. It's a very dirty game of monopoly leaving us, the fans, in despair and the bosses with heavy pockets full of money.

I love a German sounding man talking about other countries and their complicated history lol Interesting video though. I knew Benfica was a talent factory but I had no idea how big their part actually is.

shame that at 1:45 there's a mistake on olympique lyon's logo, thats the lille logo twice on that table.

As I saw another user suggest a video topic, I hope you won't mind me suggesting one too: "What is the legacy of the Heysel disaster / the European ban on English clubs?" I recently heard it suggested that, without access to European football with its glamour & revenue, the top English clubs (the so-called "Big five" of their day: Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, Spurs, Everton) decided they needed to elevate England's top league into a "super league" of sorts by making it more exclusive (cutting the number of clubs) & giving it a much more glamorous American-style TV presentation. The "Premier League" was born, replacing what was previously simply "The English First Division". UEFA took note of its increased popularity & adapted the European Cup into the Champions League. Maybe this is just English propaganda though! If it's of interest, the Wikipedia page "Foundation of the Premier League" has more details!

Apreciei o vosso esforço no minuto 6:10 Fazem vídeos muito interessantes. Pena o texto ser em Português do Brasil. Para uma próxima partilhem para ajudarmos 😉 Keep up the good work 💪

Just to make a little addition in the Ederson transfer from Rio Ave to Benfica. It was that cheap because the player had originally come from Benfica to Rio Ave, right after finalizing the youth levels at Benfica and finding no opportunities in the main roster. So he went to Rio Ave for free with an already pre-agreed fee for him to come back to Benfica, if he excelled, wich he did and Benfica exercised that clause after they sold Jan Oblak to Atletico, and needed a new number 1. In a sense it was comparable to a kind of loan.

Best channel on the transfer market in tranfer window😍

tbf with the Portuguese league staying competitive in both Europe and in the league itself, there should be greater revenue to come from tv rights. Portugal is already starting to pull ahead of the French league and if Germany isn't careful, they could start falling behind the Portuguese league as well. Although I would say the Portuguese league could probably do with cash injections to the smaller clubs and sorting the TV revenue a bit better if they want to capitalise on this chance.

Benfica (and others like ajax and porto) will probably continue like this for several years because the other clubs mainly in England have several investors for example abromvich(i know he's already sold the chealsea is just an example) Speaking of investors, Red bull has already thought about buying a club in Portugal, Desportivo Aves I just hope that in the future we can see other clubs from other countries being UCL champions e.g. Benfica, Ajax and Red Bull Salzburg

1:02 Olympique Lyon has the same logo as LOSC Lille. Oh lol 1:35 shows it better

Ederson was in Benfica youth academy but then got released

Great video 👌 just one thing wrong. Benfica and Porto don't have a low income because of small population. It's because of the clubs structure where fans vote for who they want as president and so, there is little incentive for investors to put large amounts of money in the club because no matter how much they put, they'll never have control of the club

OMG The Clauses in that Contract !!!

Great video

Benfica and Porto are 1st and 2nd for most profit in transfers. Sporting is 8th, Braga is 10th. Thats insane how 4 Portuguese teams are in the top 10. But they are also the 4 teams that completely dominate the league. That goes to show how much is relied on Player sales in Portugal

At 1:39, the Olympique Lyonnais' emblem in the video is actually LOSC's one.

1:42 interesting looking Lyon badge

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What a bloody good video. Ahead of the game

this is a very good video.mate

Thank you for making a comprehensive explanation of the transfer market. My only critique is that Lyon and Lille have the same logo in 1:38.

Fluminense’s logo appeared in the video. Nice!

+ in Portugal, we have a crazy tax concerning wages. If a player wins 2.5M€ per month the club pays the same in tax so it actually costs 5M€ to the club. That's one of the reasons they can't afford to hold on to players.

Thank you Jorge Mendes

Wow another good content

Waiting anxiously till the day , Athletic interest makes a video on boxing

Please a video about Fc Barcelona’s current state and a crisis analysis

I feel like this is also the case for Ajax and Dortmund as well, but at a slightly different scale and different circumstances.

great video

Surprising that Dortmund wasn't on that list..!!

Nice video !