Frederico Varandas reveals deal with Sporting’s key player | OneFootball

Morten Hjulmand could have left Sporting in the summer, but he made a deal with Frederico Varandas. The captain of the lions will stay in Alvalade during the 2025/26 season, fighting for the three-time championship, but he is expected to leave the Club at the end of the season.

"I want to say a word to our captain, because he rejected 'N' offers to earn triple and agreed... We had a conversation with the management and Morten will stay another year. But we held onto Morten," he began, before the Futsal Super Cup between Sporting and Benfica.

With several market rumors surrounding the squad, Varandas was emphatic: "Trincão was for Saudi Arabia. Gonçalo Inácio for Saudi Arabia. Diomande was lost to Crystal Palace. And what happened? We kept the group."

"Sporting fans need to understand one thing. Sporting did not finish in third place. Sporting did not finish in second place. Sporting has a two-time champion locker room! And if any player is to join there, it has to be a player better than the two-time champion Trincão, than the two-time champion Pote, than the two-time champion Morten, than the two-time champion Inácio," Varandas added.

To conclude, the Leonine President believes in a "stronger squad", presenting data to support this: "I look at the most reliable tool of the clubs as a barometer of market value [Transfermarkt] and Sporting, last year, had the most valuable squad in the championship. Closing the market now, with the players we have, isn't Sporting's squad again the most valuable in the championship? And with about 80 million more than the second place. And about 100 million for the third place."

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