For a laugh! Villas-Boas claims Sporting are teaming up with Benfica | OneFootball

André Villas-Boas admitted the existence of an "alliance" between Sporting and Benfica. The supposed partnership between the lions and eagles is, in the view of Porto's president, aimed at "weakening" the blue and whites, who, after defeating Moreirense (2-1), remain at the top of the league.

"Football is at a crossroads full of challenges that even call into question, in various aspects, its integrity. We are witnessing movements that seek to impose environments susceptible to illegitimate interests, distorting the truth of the competition", he said, to the magazine Dragões.

"To the interests of investors, of dubious origin, who insist on trying to force their way into Portuguese football, to the fog that lingers in the air over sports betting by direct participants in the game, as we recently saw in the case of the NBA and Turkish football, there is also a national-partisanship that allows centralism to establish itself more and more shamelessly, whether by riding on an oversaturated media system that pollutes more than it clarifies, or through “holy alliances” on the second ring road aimed at weakening Porto, its values and principles", he remarked, taking a jab at Sporting and Benfica.

It is worth remembering that the relationship between Sporting and Porto has been troubled in recent times. The Alvalade Club promised to take disciplinary action against the dragons, after André Villas-Boas' words at the Gala Portugal Football Globes were seen as an attack "against the honor of President Frederico Varandas and the reputation of Sporting SAD".

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