“I think it would be a perfect marriage, I think Joao will connect perfectly with a coach like Pep Guardiola,” says Joao Tralhao of his former pupil, Joao Cancelo, who has joined Manchester City for what appears to be a fairly low fee of £24 million, plus the under-used Danilo.



“Guardiola and his staff are very detailed coaches, they want to control everything, they want to put the responsibility on the players and Joao is this kind of player.”



The kind of player, Tralhao says, who demanded answers of his coaches back in the Benfica youth teams. He still does today, perhaps one of the reasons why he is on the move again, City his third club in three seasons.



“He wanted to know the rules and most important was that he wanted the rules to always be followed strictly, and if anything wasn’t fair he went crazy,” Tralhao, who coached Benfica’s under-18s and under-19s, says. “For a coach, you learned from...