Nuno Sousa: Frederico Varandas is risking Sporting’s future | OneFootball

Nuno Sousa was highly critical of the €225 million financing made by Sporting. The candidate for the presidency of the green and white club spoke exclusively to our newspaper, Exclusivo Leonino, and accused Frederico Varandas of “mortgaging the future” of the Lions, due to the “egos” that exist at Alvalade.

“More debt with an absurd term and a loss of independence. We have covertly returned to the Roquette era, which almost destroyed the associative club. With this, we are once again hearing talk of restructurings and the creation of new companies, which will lead to the progressive handing over of the club to investors. This board has always bet on the alienation of future revenues and the weakening of the associative strength. Once again, we are mortgaging the future to sustain the princely salaries of the ‘structure’, egos, and the propaganda machine that has been set up,” Nuno Sousa began to explain, regarding this €225 million financing, which, according to an official source, will be used for works at the Alvalade Stadium.

Nuno Sousa also commented on the current atmosphere in Portuguese football – as Carlos Xavier did recently – with special attention to the controversies involving referees: “There have always been and always will be controversies about refereeing, sometimes involving some, other times others. Those who are seriously involved in the discussion make structural proposals; those who are not talk about specific incidents. VAR was and is a structural measure that, interestingly, since its introduction, has leveled the playing field and has already ‘helped’ us become champions. Who pushed for that to happen? Bruno de Carvalho, former president of Sporting. I never saw other clubs interested.”

“If there are those who dominate refereeing, then something is wrong. My proposal has always been the autonomy of referees, as happens in England. Does anyone want that? I don’t think so, because everyone wants to have that power to ‘influence’ things behind the scenes,” Nuno Sousa began by saying, when asked what Sporting’s position should be.

The candidate for Sporting’s presidency in 2022 also added the following: “Frederico Varandas’ response, saying that we dominated in terms of championships, sounds so much like the answers I heard for years and decades from our rivals who said exactly the same thing, namely Pinto da Costa, who would show international trophies to deny that dominance over national refereeing. In the end, it seems Frederico Varandas had a model to follow in terms of response, which reveals his lack of coherence and does nothing to contribute to the ‘adult in the room’ position that is expected from Sporting’s leader.”

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