Rui Costa brought Meite to Benfica without knowing him!

THE Meite briefs managed to leave his mark in Greece in just one year, conquering with him PAOK last year’s Greek championship.

The “two-headed man of the North” failed to keep the Frenchman, who belongs to Benfica, on his roster with a veteran player of the “eagles”. Paulo Foutreto surface a special story about Meite’s transfer to the Portuguese in the summer of 2021.

In particular, he mentioned that the president of Benfica, Rui Costa, he knew nothing for the profile of the then 27-year-old, since at that time he was fully committed to the club’s presidential elections.

“What hurts me today, as a very good friend of Rui, is to be on the street and see Benfica players talking bad about him. And I can’t listen to people talking bad about Rui. Rui understands football like no one else. The last time I met him he said, “You’re the one who understands, you.” I was the sports director and I was in charge, the floor was mine. Rui told me, and I was in a tizzy when Luis (sr. Felipe Vieira, ex-Benfica president) left that summer, that he got the Frenchman, Sualio Meite, without knowing who he was.

I realize that I could not at that time, I was in a thousand confusions and there were elections. And she told me “I’m not going to trust anyone else” because she got him without knowing. “If you have to die, die standing. Don’t walk on your knees. Not on your knees. You’ll die standing. Not one or the other. You understand football. The last time we were together, you would have signed Matic,” I told him.“, said characteristically Paulo Foutre.