Diogo Luís stunned by Sporting's new starlet: so much quality | OneFootball

Diogo Luís highlighted Flávio Gonçalves as one of the players to watch in the new Sporting, but he also issued a warning about the deep overhaul of the Lions' squad. The analyst believes that, at 19, the attacking midfielder - who scored against Nacional - already shows plenty of quality, although he now faces the challenge of becoming more consistent.

"At 19, Sporting's attacking midfielder shows a great deal of quality. The hard part is not reaching the top, but being consistent," he wrote in the newspaper 'A Bola', after analyzing the transfer business carried out by the Alvalade club this summer.

"It takes courage to take the risk of such a drastic change, financial strength to carry out the plan quickly, and very clear planning, with arrivals and departures mapped out in advance." Diogo Luís also stressed that Sporting followed a different strategy from Porto and Benfica, investing more in the short term while reducing the wage budget.

"They sold players with high salaries, and the ones who came in were nowhere near those figures," he explained, recalling that "investment in transfers is a cost that can be offset by extraordinary income (player sales), while wages are recurring costs that the club will have to bear every year."

The reduction in the average age is also seen as a positive point for the Lions' future: "With all these changes, the average age ended up going down, which is crucial for having a squad capable of generating financial returns in the future. Not because the squad lacks quality, but because there was a major renewal, especially in the starting eleven. Experience and maturity are lost, youth and ambition are gained. The style of play will necessarily be different. The big question is how this squad, which has lost many of its key figures, will react in moments of greater pressure," he concluded.

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