Site behind Cardoso Varela age claims retracts, apologises to him, Porto | OneFootball

The ‘PortoReport’ account on X, which was the source of the accusations regarding an alleged identity swap involving Cardoso Varela, later repeated by Paulo Teixeira on the ‘Training Compensation’ Facebook page, has now withdrawn those allegations. In a post published on Thursday afternoon, the account also apologizes to the player and to FC Porto.

“I owe you an apology and a correction. On Tuesday, I published serious allegations about Cardoso Varela. That post was based on sources and material that were provided to me, but which I should have treated with more caution and tried to verify before publishing statements of this nature. I can no longer stand by the allegations I made in that post and I apologize for having published them. I apologize to Cardoso Varela and his family. I apologize to FC Porto. And I apologize to the people who follow me and trust what I publish. That trust is the reason this account exists, and I know that it has been damaged,” it reads.

The message also addresses the alleged link to Andy Bara, the agent who took Cardoso Varela from FC Porto to Croatia in 2022. “And I also want to address something else directly. It has been said that ‘PortoReport’ was paid directly by Andy Bara. That is false. I never received money, favors, or instructions from Andy Bara related to this matter. All decisions made by ‘PortoReport’ were mine. I know that an apology does not erase the impact of what happened. Everyone who supports this page deserves better than this,” the text concludes.

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