André Villas-Boas fires a rocket at the league: “It couldn’t be any worse” | OneFootball

André Villas-Boas used the editorial he writes in the magazine Dragões this Saturday to once again direct harsh criticism at Liga Portugal, following what he considers a succession of “blunders in quick succession” by the management led by Reinaldo Teixeira since the start of the 2025/26 season.

The president of FC Porto warns of “the continuous weakening of Portuguese football,” emphasizing that Portugal is at serious “risk” of being overtaken by Belgium in the UEFA ranking – a situation that “would have serious consequences for all national football,” as “only the national champion” would have access to the Champions League, “jeopardizing crucial financial revenues for the sustainability of the clubs.”

“We are wrapped up in successive episodes, on one hand, comical, on the other, in continued behaviors that make us doubt the intentions of certain parties. What we have witnessed recently is very illustrative of what I write. The ‘cases’ of the almost postponement of the game with Nacional and the postponement of the match with Arouca will go down in history, decisions made outside of common sense, forcing biased and strained readings of the regulations,” he continues.

“Irresponsibilities that, besides forcing FC Porto to play three games in a short period of time, compromise optimized preparation and the management of their effort, whether for European competitions – in which FC Porto will try to earn points for the UEFA ranking – or for vital League games – a FC Porto-Benfica match, just by chance,” he adds.

However, André Villas-Boas does not stop there and states that “worse would be impossible”: “What to say of those who are unable to organize competitive calendars in a way that does not harm a club involved in European competitions or of someone who ends up fostering unnecessary institutional confrontations between clubs that should be united in defending the strengthening of a League that is continuously devalued?”

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