Sporting boils: “It should be the package. When Rui Borges left, Balconies would come out”

Jaime Marta Soares, former president of the table of the Sporting General Assembly, gave, this Monday, an interview to the ‘Journal of Sports’ of Antena 1, in which he did not spare in the criticisms woven to Frederico Varandas, because of the way he managed the dossier that culminated in the resignation of Rui Borges from the technical command of the main football team.

“ The opportunity is also not the best to change coach, which should happen, but it should not have been the way it was, so I say that not only the coach is the culprit, but the one who has been feeding him so long, who effectively renews at a time completely stapafurdia, to continue to train Sporting, and gave this whole result ", started by affirming.

“It should be the package. When one comes out, the two should leave, the coach and the president, but since that is not the case, a period of learning will be given to the president, to see if he improves and if, effectively, the coach can work at will and bring to the top his competence, his knowledge and his abilities. Both at the internal and external levels, Paulo Fonseca is effectively an already established coach with status ", continued.

“The Paulo Fonseca is a coach with absolutely known credentials and with given evidence. I'm extremely convinced that if there's no one who wants to do anything, wants to be president, coach and all... I am convinced that Paulo Fonseca will not allow, under any circumstances, what Coach Rui Borges has consented to and the complicities he has been having with the president ", completed.

“Congratulations to Frederico Balconies for choosing Paulo Fonseca”

On the other hand, Sousa Cintra, the club’s former top leader, bet on a union message, and applauded the decision to move forward to hire Paulo Fonseca, who, as reported by Sports to Minute, has said goodbye to the main team of the Olympique Lyon, to be officially announced as the new lion coach in the coming days.

“ I congratulate the Varandas, the President, and I tell him that, for my part, I am satisfied with the decision he made, because, really, the sportsmen were nothing, not satisfied with what was happening, in Sporting football, so it was a correct decision, in my opinion”, he defended.

“ The union makes the force, we have to be united, now, because there's still a lot of championship left. Sporting if you're really lucky... Players are good, they're a fantastic team of values, and anything can happen. I am hopeful that it will already be this turn that all sportsmen are waiting for. It was nothing that sportsmen did not expect, a few days ago ", he added.

The debut of Paulo Fonseca in the technical command of Sporting will, to what it indicates, take place already next Saturday, at 8 pm (time of Continental Portugal), at the meeting of the 11th day of the I Liga, against Moreirense. Before that, on Tuesday at 5:45 p.m., it will be up to the interim Tiago Fernandes to guide the team, in the duel of the fourth round of the League of Champions league round, against Shakhtar Donetsk.