Rui Borges? Journalist on Sporting manager's situation: unbearable | OneFootball

Even after winning back-to-back league titles, the Portuguese Cup, and securing a historic qualification for the Champions League quarter-finals, Rui Borges is not a universally accepted name within the Sporting world. Rui Dias does not understand the criticism the coach from Mirandela has been receiving.

"He has been the recurrent target of prejudiced criticism, therefore poorly founded, much of it coming from within the green-and-white family itself. Only the sin of ingratitude explains the futile accusations against a coach who, beyond carefully preserving the valuable legacy of the most golden cycle in leonine football since the days of the Cinco Violinos, has also enhanced it with titles, consolidating its technical essence", he wrote in his opinion piece for the newspaper Record.

The editor and chief reporter of the same media outlet reinforced his opinion. "It is unbearable, for anyone with a drop of decency and a sense of justice, to hear and read statements that reveal such a scandalous lack of greatness", it reads.

Rui Dias has no doubt that Rui Borges managed to build one of the best teams on the "old continent". "The two-time national champion is one of the best teams in Europe in organized attack, because he has refined its dynamics and expanded its combinations; he has improved attacking patterns and continues to be a source of inspiration for its main creators. At full strength, with everyone available and in perfect physical, technical, and mental condition (that will be the main difficulty), few sides surpass them", he said.

It is worth remembering that Eduardo Barroso, in a Leonino Exclusive, also defended Rui Borges while attacking Jaime Marta Soares. "You have to be an idiot to say that Rui Borges did not have the quality to be Sporting's coach. No, he is the one who never had the quality to be president of Sporting's General Assembly Board. He is a man for whom I feel deep contempt", he said.

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