🗣 Benfica president Rui Costa on Darwin Nunez transfer: “When we heard Liverpool FC were interested we were hoping to get 40-45 million as Darwin had a good season. Two days later we received an official faxed bid of €80m with add-ons from Liverpool FC. The room erupted into laughter. I told my assistant to fax back asking for €100m with add-ons. Next morning a new bid worth €100m in total arrived. The world has gone crazy, we had better strikers in our youth team. I ordered my assistant to open a bottle of champagne, it felt like we had won the lottery.”