In a contract year with Manchester City, where he has been since 2017, Bernardo Silva gave an interview to Sky Sports this Sunday, making a comparison between the Citizens and Benfica, where he was trained and played only three games for the first team. "It was a long time ago. I remember being a kid with many expectations and dreams when arriving at a big club like Manchester City, which fights for titles. My main goal was to come in and win titles. It's more than I expected. First of all, I never thought I would stay this long. When you arrive, what plans do you make? Two or three years? And then you see what happens, so I never thought I would stay for nine years. Seventeen titles is obviously a lot," he began, recalling his arrival at the Etihad and the many achievements in Manchester. "When you play for a team like Manchester City and bring in great players, as Manchester City has done, the expectations are very high. The same applies to Pep Guardiola and his name. People expected Manchester City to win, which is never easy, and we did it. We won a lot," he pointed out, then referencing Benfica. "Throughout my career, I have gotten used to that. I trained for 12 years at Benfica. It is a club that is also expected to win all the time. It's not something that is strange to me, so when I arrived… I would say that even here, the pressure is quite reduced compared to Southern Europe. Personally, I think players have it much easier here," he argued. "If you want to play for this club, you cannot accept defeat. We know that our opponents are very good, we know that winning is not easy, but we do not accept defeat. We work every day to have more good days than bad days, to win more than we lose, and we have managed to do that for a long time," he concluded. Bernardo Silva's future continues to be a topic ahead of the summer transfer market, amid uncertainty about the next challenge for the Portuguese international. Barcelona, Juventus, Saudi Arabia, and even a return to Benfica have been mentioned as possibilities for the player.
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