Honestly as a Porto fan looking at their signings, fan it seems like it's starting...
Benfica have made a lot of signings, and bar Kokcu and Di Maria none of them have clicked and most seemed desperate.
The likes of Bernat, Cabral and jurasek are not Benfica level and given that schmidts first season is over, they are playing a very different, pragmatic style of football.
He suffered from depression IIRC, his wife left him or something like that a few seasons ago...