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Benfica contacts Laudrup

Benfica contacts Laudrup

19 May 2008 - 19:01

After Manchester City, Sevilla, Galatasaray; now Benfica have joined the auction for Danish trainer Michael Laudrup that officially quit his old job at Getafe only yesterday. Laudrup is one of the brightest young coaches on the continent.

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    Today the Danish coach began to examine the proposals that he has in his portfolio, and decides his future by the end of the week. Benfica may be the destiny, after the broken negotiations with Quique Flores.



    The representative of the Nordic trainer, Bayram Tutumlo, ensures that "is good" to embrace a project that seems ambitious. "At Getafe it was impossible to advance with any negotiation because Laudrup was concentrated on the challenge with Betis. Now is the time to decide the future, we already have some proposals that deserve answers, I believe that by the end of the week we will get everything resolved. "



    Revealing that the Portuguese invite is "only a hypothesis," Tutumlo also revealed that there are three more clubs that have already started contact with Laudrup. "We now have a proposal from Spain, another from England and one from Russia. We will study them carefully and go for the project that Laudrup consider more interesting, "he adds.


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