Pinotes Batista warns Varandas on Rui Borges: “No Benfica-style Sporting” | OneFootball

André Pinotes Batista once again expressed doubts about Rui Borges’s future in charge of Sporting. The well-known Sporting member had already raised the issue at the end of last season and believes that the recent results have only reinforced the concerns he had expressed.

Speaking to Record newspaper, the CMTV commentator recalled the position he had previously taken. “When, at the end of last season, I made public statements saying that Rui Borges’s future had to be on the table, I did so because I feared that a situation like the one we are now experiencing could happen,” he said.

Pinotes Batista also stressed that those statements came before he knew the extent of the changes made to Sporting’s squad during the transfer window. As he pointed out, he spoke “without yet knowing about the radical overhaul of a squad” that had led the green and whites to sporting success.

continues to have Frederico Varandas’s trust, despite growing dissatisfaction among some sectors of the Sporting universe.

Pinotes Batista also issued a warning to the Sporting president about the handling of the coach. “I do not want a Benfica-style management approach for Sporting, where coaches are renewed and kept on at the end of seasons only to be dismissed right at the start of the next ones,” he said.

For the Sporting member, any decision must follow a defined line and avoid sudden changes. “When we are asked to trust a process, it really has to be that — a process, without improvisation”, he concluded, at a time when Rui Borges remains under heavy pressure at Alvalade.

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