The Sporting coach assumed this Saturday that he was prepared to lose Pedro Porro and Marcus Edwards in the soccer transfer market, but insisted that he was told that the players only leave “because of the termination clause.”
At a press conference in Alcochete, Rúben Amorim recalled that the Portuguese First League is not “as attractive as others” for players and that Sporting “cannot pay the same wages”, which “is a problem”, and highlighted the importance for the club of obtaining economic gains when it loses players with a preponderance of Spanish and English.
“We are prepared for this, we know how dangerous it is, we know the number of attacks that are going through Porro and Marcus right now, no one is blind here. But the market is as it is. Only because of the clause”, stressed the coach of the ‘lions’, during the preview of the match on Sunday, against Marítimo.
To reinforce his “thought”, and taking advantage of the fact that the question was addressed to him, establishing a comparison with the departure of Matheus Nunes, in August, Amorim ‘introduced’ Pablo Sarabia into the ‘equation’, a striker who “was involved in 26 goals” last season, but he was on loan from Paris Saint-Germain and went to the ‘lions’ without any kind of compensation.
“We lost Pablo Sarabia, we lost those goals, we didn’t have any financial compensation and we can’t live like this. We have to take risks, when we lose a player who is involved in 30 goals, they have to give us some money to rebuild the machine, bet on training,” he recalled.
Later, asked if he had recalled the situation in Sarabia to warn the fans that he will no longer have the Spanish striker on loan starting this month, the coach guaranteed that it was just “an idea”.
“It is not a warning to Sporting fans, it is a thought. There are players who, coming on loan, have such a big impact on the team and occupy a place where they later leave and leave us with nothing, with a vacant seat and a significant number of goals to score”, he reinforced.
Conversely, of the entries in the squad, Amorim also commented, for the first time, on the arrival of Mateo Tanlongo, an Argentine midfielder “with a lot of potential” who made the club official this week and who, “despite being 19 years old” , already has the experience of a championship “where there is a lot of pressure”.
“A very intelligent defensive midfielder. He adapted very well, got ideas very quickly, very intense. He’ll have to grow, obviously, the speed of the game is very different, but I didn’t feel like he had any difficulty keeping up.” up with the rest of the guys,” he commented.
Rúben Amorim commented on the possible arrivals and departures of players from the squad during the run-up to the match with Marítimo, counting for the 15th round of the 1st Football League, which is scheduled for Sunday at 6:00 p.m., in Funchal, and arbitration by Hélder Malheiro, from the Lisbon association.
The team led by Rúben Amorim seeks to achieve its eighth consecutive victory at this stage of the season, the fourth for the championship, to reach the derby of the next round nine points behind the leader Benfica.
Source: TSF
