Nuno Raposo denies Sporting flop: Squad is stronger | OneFootball

Despite the failures at the end of the market, Nuno Raposo sees a stronger Sporting than last season

Despite the failures at the end of the last transfer market, Nuno Raposo believes that Sporting is stronger compared to last year. On the closing day of the transfer window, the lions failed to register Jota Silva within the deadline and saw Kevin diverted to Fulham.

"The Sporting squad is stronger. Despite this, the summer transfer window closed and a low-pressure system was installed over Alvalade, resulting in a storm that from what I see, hear, and read condemns the national champion to failure," he began in his opinion column for the newspaper A Bola.

"A psychodrama, as Frederico Varandas called it, which seems somewhat exaggerated to me. Because as the lion president also said, and I agree, the Sporting squad is stronger. But from what I see, hear, and read it's not even worth stepping on the field, they have no chance of being champions. And the drama is not only considered from the outside, many Sporting fans are already falling into depression. More than a psychodrama, a classic of leonine bipolarity from not so distant times," he added.

Next, Nuno Raposo mentions the presence of several players, as proof that the lions are better positioned than at the start of the last season: "Last season, Sporting started with Kovacevic in goal, then with Israel and only in winter had Rui Silva. Now they have the Portuguese from the start. They started with Quaresma, Diomande, Debast, Gonçalo Inácio, and St. Juste as center-backs and now, in a system of only two, kept them all. In the midfield, they had Hjulmand, Morita, Bragança, and only after the Portuguese's injury did they promote João Simões. Now they have the same plus Kochorashvili and in a system of easier adaptation".

Nuno Raposo also talks about the differences in the wings and the attack front: "They had Fresneda and Esgaio on the right and now on the same side they have the Spaniard and Vagiannidis; on the left they had Nuno Santos, Maxi Araújo, and Matheus Reis and now the same plus Ricardo Mangas. Further forward they had Edwards, Geny, Quenda, Trincão, Pedro Gonçalves, Biel, Harder, and Gyokeres. They lost the strikers but only the Swede allows lamentations, although of the big, huge, colossal ones, or he wouldn't be one of the best forwards in the club's history. However, everyone else stayed and now they have more Luis Suárez who has already shown to be of talent and Ioannidis also arrived, like the Colombian, a forward of 22 million", he concluded.

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