The Price To Pay

Kop-Red

I hear 12 million EUROS.

And it might not stop there.

I doubt it, the fans won't like it either. Without Sim‹o I can't see Benfica even finishing in the top 6, he's that important.

Could be, Moreira is out for the season, Quim is constantly injured and youngster Rui Nereu is TERRIBLE.

Benfica have a keeper crisis and

Is Sim‹o worth 12 million pounds? Absolutely, if used well he's worth every cent but Benitez is not famous for using players well enough, often not even in their right positions.

What will happen to Garcia? Whatever he wants since he can play with either foot but plays better on the right. Sim‹o like 99% of Portuguese wingers can play with either foot. Sim‹o is right footed but prefers to play on the left. He's not a clbuttical left winger in terms of making buttists, he's more of goal scoring winger who goes forward but then rather than make buttists with his left foot he just does diagonals to the centre with his left to the keeper and shoots with his right foot. He's also a world clbutt free-kicker.

"And what will happen to Luis Garcia?" A better question is what will happen to Zenden? An even better question is why Benitez signs players like Zenden, Nunez or Crouch? And an even better question is why Benitez wastes talented players like CissŽ, Le Tallec, etc?

If you pay 18 million Euros it will be a great deal for them financially but they will strugle to find an adequate replacement and will sink in the tables as for Liverpool they'll get another world clbutt player who has a 50-50 chance of working or not depending on whether Benitez makes it work.

Which wingers in the Premiership are better than Sim‹o? Ronaldo, Duff, Robben, Van Persie and...... that's it I guess. He's better than Park, Fletcher, Boa Morte, he's about even with SW-Phillips, etc.

AndrŽ