Coach Ruben Amorim said this Thursday that he will not charge Sporting “an extra euro” if the club wants to strip him of the football team and take responsibility for the team’s irregularity.
When asked at a press conference if he had a clause in his contract that would allow the club to relinquish his services for failing to meet certain goals, the coach recalled that “Sporting was protected” at the recent contract extension and took that he wasn’t afraid. heading off.
“The day Sporting wants to let me go, the day after, they don’t have to pay me anything anymore. Just pay me till the last day. It’s the fear I have of getting fired and becoming unemployed’shot the coach of the ‘greens and whites’, at Academia de Alcochete, during the preview of the meeting with Vizela.
Without stopping, he recalled that this is the “level of demand” that he sets for himself and his players and that, despite the “differences between clubs”, the goal is “always first place” and everything “the rest is scarce”.
“I believe that it is difficult for Sporting to be in fourth place. If Sporting understands that, they can fire me without an extra euro, even though I have a four-year contract.” [até 2026]. Here’s my word,” he insisted.
When he recovered his words after the 2-2 draw against Benfica, in the last round of the First League, when he said his team is a bit “bipolar”, he assumed that “sometimes it is difficult” to the message to the players.
“We often play with very talented players, such as Marcus Edwards. But if we look at his past, even at Vitória de Guimarães, it was very volatile. We are looking for players who we know can bring us a lot.” talent and then we will have some ups and downs, it is always the responsibility of the coach and when [a equipa] it’s fickle, even more so,” he admitted.
Earlier, however, he had already acquitted his athletes regarding stakes, remembering that “some players are not used to always playing with the pressure to win” that exists at Sporting, but they will gain that experience in the future.
“It’s not bad because I know my players. They don’t mean it. They prepare well for the games, but then this habit of always playing to win is something that is created and it takes experience. They learning. Growing in that aspect”, the coach assured.
“Strategy” to retain young people like Chermiti
Rúben Amorim explained that the promise not to take on more attackers if Chermiti extends his contract is a “strategy” to keep the youngsters in the formation against the greed of other clubs.
The young striker of the Lions, just 18 years old, made his debut for the main squad on Sunday visiting Benfica (2-2) for the First League, and the coach reminded during a press conference that Sporting has not “the ability of other clubs and that it can only fight the intimidation of its players by showing them confidence.
“It’s our way of winning over talented players like Chermiti and Rodrigo [Ribeiro]. We don’t have the financial capacity to fight with other clubs around them and we know it. This is our way of staying with the players and that’s why it’s a strategy,” he supposed.
Asked about the characteristics that led him to publicly express so much confidence in the player of Tunisian origin but born in the Azores, Amorim exclaimed that “it’s looking at him” and even thought that “he could become a reference in Sporting and in the national team “Portuguese.
“He’s a very tall player, but he has the ability to go into space. It’s hard to find both.” [1,92 metros], is a very virtuous player. So you can combine everything. And then he works a lot and that’s half the battle to play for Sporting, for any team and especially for my teams. Everything about him says he can be a successful player.”
Amorim also did not shy away from remembering that Chermiti and also Rodrigo Ribeiro, just 17 years old, could star in future ‘millionaires’ transfers to the club and drew a comparison with Nuno Mendes, the current left defender of Paris Saint -Germain. , also formed in Alcochete.
“Nuno Mendes was none of these things and in one year he became the player we all know. In just one year he was sold for 40 million.” [de euros]. That’s what I believe for Chermiti and for Rodrigo [Ribeiro]. Now it’s up to them.”
Still in regards to the transfer market, Amorim declined to comment on the club’s reported interest in defender Diomandé on loan to Mafra from Midtjylland, but assumed “another right-footed centre-back could be forthcoming”.
As for other clubs’ interest in the players in their squad, he considered that they “may be a bit more anxious” during the month of January as “it’s impossible not to mess with the players”, reiterating that Pedro Porro will only release Sporting if a club pays the release clause.
“I can’t guarantee anything, [mas] I don’t think it will come out. To leave, you must leave at this time through the termination clause. It’s the knowledge I have. Therefore, either there is a club that beats the termination clause and Porro wants to leave, or he doesn’t leave in January,” he summarized of Tottenham’s English public interest in the Spanish side.
At maximum strength against Vizela
Rúben Amorim assured that Sporting will present itself in “maximum strength” against Vizela and will not save for the upcoming series of matches.
“There will be no savings. We have to beat Vizela, we have to return to consecutive victories and in this case it is to return to victories,” he said.
After the game with the Minho team, Sporting will be back on the field on Tuesday, against Arouca, in the semi-finals of the League Cup, but Amorim recalled that the team had “clean weeks” and that “now there will be fatigue “.
Therefore, he added that “this management” of the players will only be done “now, when this series of games begins” and recalled that “sometimes the games that do not seem so difficult are the most difficult” and those that have ” more problems” for the team.
“It’s the most important game, with a well-trained team, with players who feel free [de pressão] in Alvalade, so we need to have the team at maximum strength. It’s the only way to win the game,” Rúben Amorim said of Vizela.
In this sense, the coach said that Morita “will be called up” and thus returns to the options after a muscle injury that kept him out of the last few meetings, while Mateus Fernandes “will return to the B team”.
However, Japanese midfielder and central defender St. Juste, who came on as a substitute in the Estádio da Luz derby against Benfica (2-2), “still has a time limit” for their entry and “will not play the full 90 minutes play” against the Vizelians.
Sporting will receive Vizela on Friday, in a match for the 17th round of the 1st Portuguese football league, with the start scheduled at 9:15 p.m., at Estádio José Alvalade, in Lisbon, with arbitration by Rui Costa, of the Associação de Porto football .
The team coached by Rúben Amorim is fourth in the I Liga, 12 points behind the championship leader, Benfica, and behind Sporting de Braga, second, and FC Porto, third, in a season in which it has already won five defeats and two draws in 16 contested trips.
Source: DN
