Sold to Benfica for £6m last summer, Manchester United are set to benefit if marauding full-back Álvaro Carreras completes ...

Real Madrid are closing in on the signing of Alvaro Carreras after weeks of tense negotiations with Benfica. The Spanish ...

Portuguese left-back Nuno Tavares has joined Serie A club Lazio on a permanent deal after a season-long loan at the Italian ...

Real Madrid continue to keep a close eye on Alvaro Carreras as their priority target for the left-back position, but the club ...

Carreras will be a new player for Real Madrid next season.

Rodrigo Mora (Porto): Arguably the best thing to come out of Porto’s season has been the ascendancy of Rodrigo Mora – a micro ...

Drawing on Benfica’s rich history, which includes twice winning the European Cup in the 1960s, the academy aims to equip young players with the skills required to compete in the highest levels ...

The academy, drawing on Benfica’s storied history – the Portuguese club founded in 1904 – aims to develop young players for the highest levels of competition worldwide.

One player who United have a buy-back clause in place with is Benfica’s Carreras, who developed in their academy and who has starred for Benfica this season. He produced an excellent attacking ...

A silver medalist with France at the Paris Olympics, he recently scored his first professional goal against Benfica in the Champions League. “I was not necessarily the strongest at the academy ...

The Benfica academy graduate, capable of playing at centre-back and right-back, has emerged as one of the first names on the Águias team sheet this season, having first made a senior appearance ...