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

André Villas-Boas took to his editorial in the Dragões magazine this Saturday to once again level harsh criticisms at Liga Portugal, following what he considers a succession of "blunders in droves" by the leadership headed by Reinaldo Teixeira since the start of the 2025/26 season.

The president of FC Porto warns of "the continuous weakening of Portuguese football", highlighting that Portugal runs serious "risks" of being overtaken by Belgium in the UEFA ranking - a situation that would "entail serious consequences for all of national football", as "only the national champion" would have access to the Champions League, "compromising fundamental financial revenues for the sustainability of the clubs".

"We are wrapped up in successive episodes, on one hand, caricatural, on the other, in continued behaviors that make us doubt the intentions of certain participants. What we have witnessed recently is very illustrative of what I write. The 'cases' of the near postponement of the game with Nacional and the postponement of the match with Arouca, decisions taken outside of good sense, forcing biased and strenuous interpretations of the regulations, will go down in history," he continues.

"Irresponsibilities that, in addition to forcing FC Porto to play three games in a short space of time, compromise an optimized preparation and the management of its effort, whether for European competitions - in which FC Porto will try to score points for the UEFA ranking - or for vital league games - an FC Porto-Benfica, by mere chance," he concludes.

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

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