Sporting know when Nuno Santos will return

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·4 September 2025

Sporting know when Nuno Santos will return

Nuno Santos will return to the pitch next month. The Sporting winger is recovering from a serious injury after suffering a rupture of the patellar tendon in his right knee on October 26, 2024, and has entered the final stretch with hopes of being called up again by Rui Borges.

After the international break, Sporting returns to the National Championship against Famalicão, in a match scheduled for September 13. Nuno Santos will still be out of the coach’s plans for this trip, which brings back bad memories, as it was precisely on the Minho team’s ground that the left-footer got injured.

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Although the player is already in a very advanced stage, the green and white structure will not take any risks and prefers to wait a few more weeks. The goal is for Nuno Santos to be out of competition for roughly a year, since this is the third serious injury of his career.

According to the newspaper Record, the Sporting officials believe that in October Nuno Santos will return to the squad, but with limited playing time and in need of regaining match fitness. Therefore, the fight for a starting spot should only happen around mid-December.

In 2024/25, up until the injury, wearing the Sporting shirt, Nuno Santos – valued at 9 million euros – had played 10 matches: seven in Liga Portugal Betclic, two in the Champions League, and one in the Portuguese Cup. In the 606 minutes he was on the pitch, the 30-year-old athlete scored one goal (Sturm Graz) and provided one assist (Portimonense).

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