Portuguese coach will terminate later this Tuesday with the French from Olympique Lyon and arrives in Lisbon already on the night of today. You have a valid contract waiting until June 2030.
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03/11/2026
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ANDfor hours the confirmation of Paulo Fonseca as new coach of Sporting. O Sports to Minute knows that the portuguese technician has been forwarding the contractual termination with the French olympique Lyon and that it should be closed this Tuesday. As soon as the process takes place, the Luso-Angolan has an open way to head for Alvalade.
But there's more information on this dossier. Paulo Fonseca arrives at Humberto Delgado Airport in Lisbon, around dinner time, more precisely at 7:55 p.m., minutes after Sporting finishes the visit to the borrowed house of Shaktar Donetsk, which is valid for the fourth day of the single league phase of the Champions League.
After completing the formalities, Paulo Fonseca, knows the Sports to Minute, will sign with Sporting a contract that is valid until June 2030, i.e. for about three and a half seasons. In the last few days, it had already been written that the leaders of the club of Alvalade had shown openness to equal the salary that Paulo Fonseca currently earns to the helm of the Olympique Lyon, located between the 350 and the 400,000 euros per month, a scenario that will be to his liking.
With regard to the operation itself, our newspaper found that Sporting will even pay a compensation of five million euros to rescue Paulo Fonseca to Lyon.
The technical team accompanying it and the following calendar
As already revealed by Sports to Minute in due time, Paulo Fonseca will be accompanied by Paulo Ferreira (adjunct trainer), António Ferreira (teacher of goalkeeper), Paulo Mourão (physical preparer) and Nelson Duarte (analyst), to begin in the next days his journey in Sporting. The only element that does not come to Lisbon is Jorge Maciel, who will even stay in Lyon, so as to serve as interim coach until the French emblem finds a suitable substitute for Paulo Fonseca.
Sealed the agreement between the two parties, Paulo Fonseca must debut on the bench of green and white alternates next Sunday at 8.30 p.m. (Own time in mainland Portugal), in the stadium José Alvalade, in the departure of the 11th day of the I Liga, against Moreirense, where the team is forbidden to vacillate again, at the risk of seeing further increase the current ‘fosso’ of nine points for the leader, FC Porto.
At the beginning of the following week begins the break for the selection commitments, before the lions resume the march of games with consecutive duels with União da Serra (for the Portuguese Cup), Manchester United (for the Champions League) and FC Porto (for the I League), which may prove decisive on all fronts.