Journalist: Benfica could be Palhinha's revenge, he's upset with Sporting | OneFootball

João Palhinha may be more receptive to joining Benfica due to the disappointment he felt with Sporting. The former Sporting captain is said to have expected to return to Alvalade in this transfer window, but the response from the green and whites did not match what he had hoped for.

Humberto Simões, a Record journalist, discussed on the Now channel the possibility of the Portugal international moving to Luz: "Rather than saying I’m certain, I’ll say I think so. I think João Palhinha is a little disappointed with Sporting", he began by saying.

According to the journalist, the midfielder believed he could return to the club where he was developed and once again take on a prominent role: "At a certain point, Palhinha expected that he could return to Sporting and have some prominence, but the truth is that Sporting did not give him the response he thought it would," he explained.

That situation could now influence the player’s openness to representing Lisbon’s rival. "I think ‘getting back at them’ may be an expression I understand, but I’ll put it in quotation marks. In a way, that disappointment João Palhinha felt with Sporting may also weigh on this desire to go to their rival and return to Portugal," added Humberto Simões.

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