The current director general for football of Benfica sent an email to Luís Filipe Vieira confirming that the Octopus exists in Benfica. Tiago Pinto, who was at the time an advisor to Luís Filipe Vieira, wrote the definition of Octopus in this e-mail:
5) to continue the “web of power” work that we have achieved with institutions, clubs, the press, so that small victories can be added in all fields (loans of players, relations with federation, boards of arbitration and things like this).
Yes, Tiago, we would not say better.
