Portuguese international Gonçalo Guedes made no secret of his ‘great happiness’ from ‘coming home’ to represent Benfica, the club he graduated from, on loan from Wolverhampton until the end of the 2022/23 season.
“It is a great happiness to be back home, where I grew up. I am very happy and I hope all the Benfica fans are too. It is very important for me, it is always very good to return home,” he said. Gonçalo Guedes, in a statement published this Friday on the official website of Benfica on the Internet.
The isolated leader of the Portuguese First League announced this Friday at dawn that the 26-year-old striker will return to the Lisbon club, where he trained and reached the first team, joining Paris Saint-Germain in January 2017. , for 30 million euros.
“As soon as they spoke to me about the Benfica option, I was immediately delighted, obviously because this is a club that will have an impact on me and to which I already thought I wanted to return. I was very happy, I immediately gave my approval that I would like to leave, and then the clubs had to come to an agreement. It was possible, I am very pleased with it,” the player emphasized.
The Portugal player, who will wear the number 15 jersey, arrives at the Estadio da Luz stadium with the desire to “help the team as much as possible in achieving its goals”, promising to try “as quickly as possible” to adapt to the coach’s training methods. German Roger Schmidt.
Gonçalo Guedes joined Wolverhampton earlier this season after five seasons with Spanish club Valencia and has made 18 appearances, scoring two goals and providing an assist, showing the difficulty of establishing himself in the team coached by Julen Lopetegui, who took over from the Portuguese. Bruno Lage.
At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, Gonzalo Guedes was loaned out by the Parisian club to Valencia, which eventually kept the player on a permanent basis until his departure to English football.
The striker, who did not qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, made 32 appearances for Portugal’s senior team, scoring seven goals, including one in the 2019 Nations League final against the Netherlands, to secure the trophy.
The Portuguese striker is the Eagles’ third addition in this market opening, after Dane Kasper Tengstedt (ex-Rosenborg) and Norwegian Andreas Schjelderup (ex-Nordsjælland).
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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