The manager of Benfica has criticized the pursuit of an Argentine player by a European team.
He has a release clause of about $106m.
"What the club is doing who wants Enzo, it's disrespectful against all of us, against Benfica and I can't accept what they are doing."
"To make the player crazy, and then to pretend they can pay the clause and later they want negotiate is not what I understand about a good relationship between clubs who want to talk about the player."
After helping Argentina win the World Cup, he returned to Portugal and played 89 minutes for Benfica in a loss.
"We don't want to sell him, we don't want to sell him at this club," said Schmidt. If the player wants to leave and someone pays the clause in his contract, we can't fight it, so we might lose the player.
"There's a club who want our player, they know we don't want to sell the player, they tried to get the player on their side and they know that they only can get this player when they pay the clause."
Enzo is a very good boy and a great football player. We would love for him to stay at Benfica.
He became world champion after playing in the World Cup, and there's a lot of money on the table, so it's not easy for him.
It can be confusing for a young player when they think about that. I think that he's a good boy despite the fact that everyone can understand.
He was not allowed to go to Argentina. It will have consequences because he missed the training.