“Next game, we want a spa for Sporting: beds, good sheets, velvet towels” | OneFootball

André Villas-Boas used irony to address Sporting’s visit in the next meeting between the two clubs, promising a “spa” to welcome the Lisbon side at the Dragão.

The FC Porto president said the goal is to “build a spa to properly welcome Sporting,” with “decent beds,” suitable “sheets,” and “softer velvet towels.” The statement comes in the wake of the recent controversy involving balls, cones, and towels, amid a climate of verbal tension in which FC Porto has been constantly provoked by Frederico Varandas’s Sporting.

Villas-Boas also hardened his tone toward the rival, assuring that FC Porto will be “relentless” in defending the club against what he sees as insults directed at the institution. The Porto chairman criticized the attention given to these kinds of episodes, considering it excessive that the debate around a clássico between FC Porto and Sporting should focus on side issues rather than what really matters on the pitch.

The next clash between the two clubs is therefore already heating up off the field, with the reception for the Sporting delegation serving as the pretext for another chapter in the war of words between officials on both sides. On the eve of another showdown, the atmosphere promises to remain intense.

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