Sporting midfielder with 14 games dropped to B team | OneFootball

Mateo Tanlongo will play for Sporting's B team during the 2025/26 season. The defensive midfielder joined the Alvalade Club in the summer of 2022 and was part of the main squad under Ruben Amorim until he was loaned out due to lack of space in the team.

However, this was not Sporting's plan for Tanlongo. Our Journal reveals, in this Exclusive Leonino, that the green and white leaders wanted to sell the Argentine midfielder this summer and end the three-year connection with the player whom the lions acquired from Rosario Central at no cost.

Despite being on the market, after a successful season with the Cypriot team Pafos, where he won the national title and played 28 games, the offers for Mateo Tanlongo were not enticing enough for Sporting to part with the defensive midfielder, so the decision was to keep the player, albeit in Sporting's B team.

João Gião, coach of Sporting's secondary team, thus gains another option for the midfield, in a team that has made a tremendous start in Liga 2, after seven years in the lower divisions. The lions have, so far, three wins in four matches played in the second division championship.

It should be remembered that after being signed by Sporting, Tanlongo was part of the main team, having played 14 games in the 2022/23 season. The performances did not convince the green and white officials, and the defensive midfielder, a native of Argentina, had three consecutive loans - first to Copenhagen, then to Rio Ave, and finally, in the last season, to Pafos in Cyprus, where he became national champion.

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