Botafogo land Benfica striker Arthur Cabral

Benfica have come to an agreement to sell striker Arthur Cabral to Botafogo for €12M with an additional €3M in potential incentives and will retain 10% on a future sale of the player. Botafogo have signed Cabral for the next three seasons and will have his services for the Club World Cup which is set to commence in the next couple of weeks.

Benfica acquired the 27 year old striker from Fiorentina in the summer of 2024 for €20.5M to replace outgoing starting striker Goncalo Ramos who was sold that same summer to PSG. Cabral could never become the striker the club was hoping for and had fallen down the pecking order of the club with the arrivals of Vangelis Pavlidis and Andrea Belotti.

Cabral appeared in 77 games for Benfica across all competitions scoring 18 goals while providing 5 helpers in 2,865 minutes of action with the majority of his game action coming at his first season with the club. Cabral did score two goals for the club in the Champions League over the past two seasons, both victories.

Cabral returns to his native Brazil where he last played in 2019 when he suited up with Palmeiras. Cabral came up through Brazilian clubs Ceara and Campinense and captured his only club trophy at the senior level this season when Benfica won the 2024-25 Taca da Liga earlier in the year.