Nuno Sousa: Varandas is jeopardising Sporting’s future | OneFootball

Nuno Sousa was highly critical of the 225 million euro financing made by Sporting. The candidate for the Presidency of the green and white club spoke with our Newspaper, in an Exclusive Leonino, and accused Frederico Varandas of "mortgaging the future" of the lions, due to the "egos" that exist in Alvalade.

"More debt with an absurd term and loss of independence. We have covertly returned to the Roquette era that almost destroyed the associative Club. With this, we are hearing about restructurings and the creation of new companies again, which will lead to the progressive handing over of the club to investors. This management has always bet on the alienation of future revenues and the weakening of the associative strength. We are once again mortgaging the future to sustain the princely salaries of the 'structure', egos, and the propaganda machine set up," Nuno Sousa began to explain regarding this 225 million euro financing, which, according to an official source, will be used for works at the Estádio de Alvalade.

Nuno Sousa also commented on the atmosphere in Portuguese football - as Carlos Xavier did recently -, with special attention to controversies with referees: "There have always been and always will be controversies about refereeing, sometimes it will be some, other times others. Those who are seriously in the discussion make structural proposals, those who are not talk about specific incidents. VAR was and is a structural measure that, interestingly, since its introduction leveled the playing field and has already 'helped' us become champions. Who pushed for this to happen? Bruno de Carvalho, former president of Sporting. I never saw other clubs interested."

"If there are those who dominate refereeing, then something is wrong. My proposal has always been the autonomy of referees as happens in England. Does anyone want that? It doesn't seem so, as everyone wants to have that power to 'influence' behind the scenes," Nuno Sousa began to say when asked about what Sporting's position should be.

The candidate for the Presidency of Sporting in 2022 further added: "Frederico Varandas' response saying that we dominated in the number of championships, is so similar to the responses I heard for years and decades from rivals who said exactly the same thing, namely from Pinto da Costa who showed international trophies to deny that dominance over national refereeing. After all, it seems that Frederico Varandas had a model to follow in that type of response, which reveals his lack of coherence and does nothing to contribute to a position that is wanted 'as an adult in the room' from someone who leads Sporting."

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