{"id":1139584,"date":"2020-04-14T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1139584"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:17:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:17:44","slug":"bernardo-silva-unfinished-business-benfica-man-city","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/bernardo-silva-unfinished-business-benfica-man-city\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI&#8217;m a Benfica fan\u201d &#8211; Bernardo Silva sets sights on unfinished business at former club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manchester City playmaker Bernardo Silva has opened the door on a return to childhood club Benfica.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old hailed from the Portuguese club\u2019s ranks but made just three senior appearances before leaving for Monaco in 2014, initially on loan and then permanently.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Silva\u2019s Benfica stint:\u00a0<\/strong>Five things to know\u2026<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Silva emerged from Benfica\u2019s esteemed academy in 2013 but mustered just three first-team appearances before leaving for Monaco.<\/li>\n<li>Despite earning the Segunda Liga Breakthrough Player of the Year award for Benfica B in 2013\/14, Silva was moved on to Ligue 1.<\/li>\n<li>The Portuguese flourished at the Stade Louis II and formed a key part of Monaco\u2019s famous 2016\/17 Ligue 1 title win.<\/li>\n<li>This prompted Man City to splashed over \u00a340m for his services in 2017 and he has since become an illustrious part of Pep Guardiola\u2019s furniture.<\/li>\n<li>The 25-year-old has now left the door ajar for a future return to Benfica, his childhood club.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7533381\/embed\/v4\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Having relocated to the Monegasques, Silva quickly established an important role in then manager Leonardo Jardim\u2019s first-team plans.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Fabinho and Benjamin Mendy, Monaco pipped PSG to the Ligue 1 title in 2016\/17 before the club\u2019s ranks were plundered.<\/p>\n<p>Man City made the double swoop for Silva and Mendy that summer, with the former having gone on to become an invaluable member of Guardiola\u2019s title-winners.<\/p>\n<p>Despite unprecedented success in the North West, Silva has welcomed a future return to his boyhood club, whom he failed to leave a significant mark on during his formative years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to answer that,&#8221; Silva told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rSnf3lwBpms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bleacher Report<\/a>\u00a0when asked if he would welcome a return to Portugal in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I can tell you is not in one, two, three or four years, for sure, because I am in a great club.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Takumi Minamino: How Japanese fans support Liverpool&#039;s new signing | \u5357\u91ce \u62d3\u5b9f\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qsprIbhfVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC_QgsfA8W1TdLADOz0txpTg?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am enjoying my career a lot, I don&#8217;t want to go back now but I don&#8217;t want to go when I&#8217;m too old. I want to go help my team when I am in a good physical condition. I don&#8217;t know the exact age &#8211; not too old but not now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll explain a bit more why I want to do that. I&#8217;m a Benfica fan, I used to go to all the games with my dad so my dream was always to play for Benfica and when I was 19 and playing for the second team I didn&#8217;t have the opportunity to play for the first team because the manager didn&#8217;t want me there or think I was able to play for the first team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a huge disappointment for me to have to leave, go to Monaco to have a good career. Because I&#8217;ve never played for my team, I have this gap in my heart and I need to fill it. Not now, obviously, but if they want me there I definitely want to go back to Benfica one day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City playmaker Bernardo Silva has opened the door on a return to childhood club Benfica. 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Silva\u2019s Benfica stint:\u00a0Five things to know\u2026 Silva emerged from Benfica\u2019s esteemed academy in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1139585,"parent":0,"menu_order":2611,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Man City news: Bernardo Silva sets sights on unfinished business at Benfica","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Manchester City playmaker Bernardo Silva has opened the door on a future return to childhood club Benfica.","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1139584","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"external_featured_image_url":"","hide_featured_image_pattern":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Man City news: Bernardo Silva sets sights on unfinished business at Benfica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manchester City playmaker Bernardo Silva has opened the door on a future return to childhood club Benfica.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/bernardo-silva-unfinished-business-benfica-man-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cI&#039;m a Benfica fan\u201d - Bernardo Silva sets sights on unfinished business at former club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manchester City playmaker Bernardo Silva has opened the door on a future return to childhood club Benfica.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/bernardo-silva-unfinished-business-benfica-man-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Squawka | EN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SquawkaFootballNews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/14090346\/1139584_1139584_PA-48150034-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@squawka\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/bernardo-silva-unfinished-business-benfica-man-city\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/bernardo-silva-unfinished-business-benfica-man-city\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ben Green\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/7b33a00558813314a222ac17c7bd478c\"},\"headline\":\"\u201cI&#8217;m a Benfica fan\u201d &#8211; 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