Star once linked with Sporting: Playing for a big club? Yes! | OneFootball

Tomás Handel admits he would like to have an opportunity to play for one of the "big" clubs in Portugal. The midfielder was linked to Sporting and Porto, but he moved to Red Star Belgrade, in Serbia, during the last summer transfer window.

"Would I have liked to have had an opportunity to play for one of the big clubs in Portugal? Yes, of course. Being Portuguese and having played for Vitória, it would have been the natural path. But things didn't happen, it's part of it. Maybe it will happen someday. I know my worth and that I'm in a place where they really wanted me, which is important," he admitted in an interview with the newspaper O JOGO.

The 25-year-old athlete, when asked if Portuguese football should have valued him more, responded in this way: "It's a bit of a complicated question. If it didn't happen, it's because it wasn't meant to be. It was very close, but I don't have regrets about it, because it's not up to me. I know my qualities, my worth, and how ready I was for whatever step it might be," he stated.

It should be noted that Frederico Varandas wanted to sign Tomás Handel, as it was a long-standing wish of Rui Borges, but our newspaper revealed, in this Leonino Exclusive, that the Portuguese midfielder would only arrive at Alvalade if the Lions sold Hidemasa Morita, which did not happen.

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