Asked about a dinner he had with President Rui Costa this week if they talked about his succession at Benfica, Jorge Jesus replied that they did not deal with work issues.
“Lunch with the president is part of other lunches and dinners we’ve had this year. The date is what made you think it was in a certain context. If the president wanted to talk to me about Benfica, or if I wanted to talk to him about Benfica, we wouldn’t go to a restaurant. We are together almost every day here in Seixal. We didn’t go to the restaurant to talk about work. This is our habit, we have a deep friendship, and it was in this context that we went to lunch, ”he said at a press conference dedicated to the announcement of the game with Pasos de Ferreira for the Portuguese Cup.
Also at another dinner, during which he was photographed with António Tabet, actor of the Porta dos Fundos project and former director of Flamengo, Jorge Jesus played down the theme and fans’ desire for him to return to Brazil.
“Every day I can’t leave the house, but I’m used to it. I don’t know if he is a manager, I did not know this person, I was in a restaurant, where that day I took more than a hundred photographs. And since I do not deny anyone photographs, I took them with me, who, as I later found out, is an actor. This is not a problem for me, this is not a topic. I think journalism is not what it is, it is for pink magazines, ”he said.
