Rui Borges set for long-awaited boost as Sporting return to training | OneFootball

Rui Borges is counting on a tremendous boost as Sporting returns to training: after more than a year of absence, Nuno Santos is ready to be reintegrated into the green and white team’s training sessions. He is expected to be one of the main highlights to watch after three days of rest.

This information is being reported by the newspaper A Bola, which assures that the player will be a prominent presence in Wednesday’s session, November 19. If this happens, the winger – who gave up his days off – now faces a ‘pre-season’, in which the main goal is to regain his lost match fitness.

Nuno Santos has been out of Sporting’s squad options since October 26, 2024, after getting injured during the 9th round of the 2024/25 Liga season, in the team’s away match against Famalicão. Medical exams confirmed a rupture of the right knee’s patellar tendon, and he eventually underwent surgery.

This absence of Nuno Santos was supposed to have ended at the end of last season, during the Portuguese Cup final against Benfica. However, that did not happen and his return kept being postponed, but now the time has finally come.

Nuno Santos – valued at 7 million euros – joined Sporting in 2020 from Rio Ave, for a fee of 4.15 million euros (according to Transfermarkt). Since then, the 30-year-old winger has played 196 matches, scored 34 goals, provided 42 assists, and won seven trophies (three National Championships, one Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup, one Portuguese Cup, and two League Cups).

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