Recall that earlier Football. ua reported on the received offer to sign a contract from the Portuguese Benfica to the Spanish striker Diego Costa, who has been officially a free agent since the beginning of 2021, although he left the Madrid camp by mutual agreement of the parties in early December 2020.

However, according to information from the Spanish edition of Mundo Deportivo, the 32-year-old forward did not hesitate for a long time about the proposal of the Lisbon team, and has already managed to agree in principle to the transition to the summer transfer window..

It is reported that the player's agent, Jorge Mendes, who has excellent connections with the Eagles' transfer department after several successful deals, helped speed up the deal..

At the same time, the player himself was promised a solid lift in the amount of 3 million euros for the very fact of joining Benfica, with a subsequent salary of 3 million euros for each season spent at the club..

Note that at the moment of the season Benfica is in third place in the tournament table of the Portuguese championship, behind the leader in the person of its principal rival - Sporting Lisbon, by 13 points.

It only remains to mention that the Transfermarkt portal estimates the striker at 10 million euros..