Benfica and Ajax have been two of the biggest feeder team in Europe in the last decade. Both teams have specialized in selling their best players to Europe’s biggest clubs with Benfica repeating the feat against in the last transfer window when they sold Enzo Fernandez to Chelsea for €121 million. He became the second most expensive sale in the history of the club....CONTINUE READING
This happened after the Portuguese club had gotten €127.2 million from Atletico Madrid in the 2019/20 season after the Spanish La Liga club managed to sign João Felix.
In the last summer transfer window, they also sold Darwin Nunez to Liverpool for a fee in the region of €80 million. In the summer of the 2020, Manchester City snapped up Ruben Dias from Benfica. However, the Portuguese club got €71.6 million from his sale.
Manchester City also got their current number one, Ederson Moraes from the Portuguese club but had to pay €40 million before they were able to sign him.
Axel Witsel was sold to Zenit Saint Petersburg in 2012/13 for €40 million. Wolverhampton Wanderers striker, Raul Jimenez was signed from Benfica. He joined the English Premier League side for €38 million.
Nelson Semedo, who currently plies his trade with Wolverhampton Wanderers, was a product of Benfica’s academy. When Barcelona came knocking in 2017, the Portuguese club had to let him leave for €35.7 million.
Benfica has also sold Victor Lindelof and Renato Sanches to Manchester United and Bayern Munich respectively. The former was sold in 2017 for €35 million and the latter was sold the season before that for the same amount.
