Ex-Sporting chief slams Rui Borges renewal and Varandas: talks too much | OneFootball

Jaime Marta Soares, former president of the General Assembly Board of Sporting, once again commented on current events at the club and strongly criticized the timing chosen for Rui Borges’s contract renewal, at a delicate stage of the sporting season.

"Under no circumstances is this the ideal moment. It should have happened earlier; now, at a time like this, it is an attempt to fix what can no longer be fixed. Without questioning the person he is, the humanist he is, the coach, someone I, as a citizen, respect greatly, but whom, as I have always said, I do not believe has the stature to be Sporting’s coach," he told the newspaper 'A Bola'.

The former official also did not spare the board and, in particular, Frederico Varandas, assigning broader responsibility for the club’s situation: "But we cannot only call the coach’s mistakes into question. There are people responsible, the owners of all this. I am referring specifically to Sporting and its President, because of a whole set of situations that displeased me, namely talking too much and at the wrong time."

Along the same lines, he also made harsher remarks about the leadership: "When that happens, people say that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones," then questioning whether the current problems result from an "inability to manage a club the size of Sporting," "excessive protagonism," or even "a person with false humility."

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