Jose Boto

[Blueclouds]

He can spot players who can be sold on for profit in Portugal, but can he spot players who have the noodles to perform well on a rainy cold Wednesday night away at Newcastle in the English supercheats pantomime league?

Some of the players are already in this league

Angel di Maria, David Luiz, Axel Witsel, Nemanja Matic, Jan Oblak, Bernardo Silva, Joao Cancelo Renato Sanches, Goncalo Guedes, Nelson Semedo, Victor Lindelof, Luka Jovic

 

[Zatara]

Sergei Palkin, FC Shakhtar CEO:

- Starting from July 1, Jose Boto is the chief scout of our club. For the recent ten years, he has headed the scouting service of Benfica, laying the foundation for the scouting activity at the Lisbon-based team, and we can perfectly see the results of his work. Over the past few years, Benfica has sold players for half a billion euros, which is indicative of the quality investments. Of course, this work was headed by Jose Boto. The tasks faced by him include searching for the talented players. It’s important that we don’t change our philosophy orientated towards Brazil. Of course, we also watch Europe and Ukraine in particular, along with the other continents. I want to wish Jose good luck in his work so that our scouting unit becomes one of the strongest in Europe.

I imagine were going to be heavily focused on getting new players in to push the top 6 and also going for South American / Portuguese youth in tandem in the coming seasons

 

[MikeH72]

Will he be able to sell Niasse, Tosun, Besic, Walcott, Bolasie, Stekelenburg, Martina and Schneiderlin?

 

[DickRitchie214]

Will he be able to sell Niasse, Tosun, Besic, Walcott, Bolasie, Stekelenburg, Martina and Schneiderlin?

God just writing that out should give all a sense as to what Brands has had to deal with, and he cleared a ton of crap out already!

 

[Tipp blue]

Think I'll start a Boto out thread, get ahead of the game.

 

[Seathestars]

This has Usmanov written all over it, he’s not happy with his investment so far