Benfica extend contracts of promising youngsters

Benfica have extended the contracts of promising youngsters Tiago Dantas and Nuno Tavares, both players have signed on for five additional seasons and the club has added €88M buy out clauses to each players contract. Dantas is a creative attacking midfielder and is his name has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Joao Felix in this coming season while left back Tavares will be Alex Grimaldo's understudy for the upcoming season with the departure of Yuri Ribeiro to Nottingham last week. Benfica's Seixal academy continues to turn up some gems and these two youngsters should be kept an eye on for this season.