Sporting’s coach Ruben Amorim on Thursday denied making his place available in case the club were to hire Cristiano Ronaldo, guaranteeing that despite much talk, the possibility was never raised.
“Ronaldo is a Manchester United player, he was never introduced to me, so it is impossible to make the place available”shot the technician when confronted with the news published by some English media outlets this week.
According to Amorim, there would be “other things” that would “make him available more quickly” than the possibility of the club hiring “CR7”, which he does not do because he has “a commitment to the club and especially to the players” of the current ‘green-white’ team.
“Therefore, this is incorrect. And this hypothesis has never been put forward. It has been talked about a lot, but it has never been put forward,” he concluded.
Amorim also guaranteed that he maintains a “normal relationship” with the management chaired by Frederico Varandas, who on Wednesday considered him “the best coach of the Portuguese I League” of football “and one of the best in the world”, but ” dismissed’ the support of the club’s management, “especially in these phases” of sporting results below expectations.
“I don’t really like support, especially in these phases. The management doesn’t have to support me. That’s something you have to do if you understand, I feel quite comfortable. And because I believe that we can do any game win, I always feel well guided because I am accompanied by my players,” he emphasized.
In that sense, the coach stressed that he “always considers his players the best in the world” and dismissed that he was “dissatisfied” with the club’s purchases in the current transfer market, not least because “at times like these it seemed like he was the others”.
Win to turn the crisis
Sporting’s coach stressed that “winning matches” is the only way to reverse the “crisis” of results in the Portuguese football league and recalled that “there is still a lot to be won” this season.
In a press conference ahead of the meeting with Estoril Praia held in Alcochete, Ruben Amorim almost always led his answers to the same idea, which he repeated at least six times in response to different questions, setting the goal for that time “win every game and calculate at the end”.
“There are still a lot of competitions in the game, most of them have not started yet, so we have a lot to gain, knowing the difference in points for first place and even for the teams that are there along with the first. win”, began by designating the ‘lions’ coach.
According to Amorim, it is only by “winning games” that the “greens and whites” manage to “turn the crisis” and shake off the struggle a bit, which he considered “normal” in a club this big. as sportsman.
“By winning the matches, we overcome the crisis again. It’s normal, we work in a very large, very demanding club, which has already experienced these moments. We have already won titles, we have already sold players, now we are going trying to overcome a bad moment maybe it was the only thing that was missing the way to turn this around is to win games and it’s to start with estoril [Praia]”, he stood on it.
For this, the coach will not continue to count on the injured Daniel Bragança and Paulinho, who is “almost recovering”, but he has Pedro Porro available again, after a sentence served against Desportivo de Chaves, and revealed that he will call on the reinforcements of Sotiris Alexandropoulos to Mateus Fernandes to play for the B team.
However, the coach did not reveal whether he will be betting on Pedro Goncalves again in midfield, but said this option “went well” in the last round and was “happy with several options” for the next matches.
“The jar [Pedro Gonçalves], will basically vary from game to game, remember we have two games a week almost until the World Cup. It is impossible to keep the same ‘elf’ and the dynamics have to be different from game to game. And that’s what we’re going to do now with Estoril [Praia]”, he admitted.
The press conference was also much more focused on other topics, besides the match for the fifth round of the I Liga, but Amorim “succeeded” to “recall that Estoril [Praia] has an excellent team of very talented kids”.
“There will be no responsibility in the game. It has three points more than Sporting and if you win you can face six. And as a big club we have to live well with that, of course we have to win again. “, defined.
Sporting will visit Estoril Praia on Friday, in a match for the fifth round of the Portuguese football league, which starts at 21:15, at the António Coimbra da Mota stadium, in Estoril, and will be whistled by Manuel Oliveira, of the Harbor Association.
The team led by Ruben Amorim, after two consecutive defeats against FC Porto (3-0) and Desportivo de Chaves (2-0), who ‘thrown’ it to 13th place, want eight points from the leader, Benfica.
Source: DN
