They are working and investing well on that area, particularly in the way they make the transition between the under 19's, B team and the new under 23 team, Umaro Embaló is from 2001 and yesterday was playing against us and he looked more matured than Elves Baldé for example who is 2 years older.
And now they have Bruno Lage as their new B team head coach, was Carvalhal assistant at Wednesday and Swansea. For me Dalot if he recovers well and has a manager who is able to develop his potential on the long term and Félix are our 2 top prospects from the 99 generation. None of them were present at the last under 19 Euros we won.
To stop praising them now
, I must say sometimes the media ridiculously over hypes some of their youth products, the last one is trying to convince us that Ruben Dias is worth 40 million Euros when he is 2 years older than De Ligt who is twice the player, to say the least.
That happens not only because they are Benfica and the media wants to sell, but also the Gestifute hype machine is borderline obnoxiously Gobbelsian propagandistic. The last one is Xadas who barely plays and now they want us to believe he was sold to Monaco by 15 million Euromendes currency.
One day I want to find the true numbers of the business links between Mendes Gestifute and the Carrousell clubs. But make no mistake Félix is not Renato Sanches, he is a top prospect, I watched 1 game live last season from Benfica under 19's against Sporting on the last stages of the Championship they won, and imo he resembles a mix between João Vieira Pinto and Rui Costa. Now he only needs to be developed by a top manager, which imo Rui Vitória isn't, even if he sometimes here or there has some results.