Villas-Boas on Suárez row, Porto chief tackles Sporting issue | OneFootball

André Villas Boas traveled to Monção to mark the 25th anniversary of Porto’s local branch and ended up responding to Frederico Varandas’ recent statements. The Porto president answered the accusations made by the Sporting leader, who suggested the dragons were involved in issues related to the transfer of Luís Suárez and alleged coordination with Benfica on the matter of refereeing.

In response to those remarks, the dragons’ leader was critical and considered the statements baseless, delivering a harsh reaction to what the Sporting official had said. On the matter, he stated: "A creative absurdity from the Sporting president".

The Porto president again addressed the refereeing issue and rejected any kind of interference in Portuguese football: "Unfortunate comments. I do not agree at all with the interference in refereeing that was mentioned, that would be the last straw. That would mean Portuguese football was in a bad way".

As for the accusation related to Luís Suárez, Villas Boas was even more direct and denied any involvement by Porto in the process: "We have nothing to do with Sporting’s players or its assets, and we have better things to do than conspire against Sporting players’ transfers".

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