Agent reveals Pedro Porro's ordeal at Sporting: almost fainted | OneFootball

Pedro Porro went through moments of enormous tension before swapping Sporting for Tottenham. The revelation was made by Toni Pla, the Spanish international’s agent, who recalled the behind-the-scenes of the negotiations with the Lions and admitted that the full-back reached his emotional limit during the process.

In an interview with newspaper AS, the agent described the transfer completed in January 2023 as one of the most complicated of his career. "The negotiation with Sporting was extremely tough. Pedro always keeps everything to himself, you never know whether he is calm or worried. We were having dinner and he started to feel unwell. He asked his father to go with him to the bathroom and he almost fainted in his arms", he revealed.

According to Toni Pla, the former Sporting player never showed what he was feeling during the talks, but the pressure that had built up eventually had consequences. "He never said anything while we were negotiating, but he just couldn’t take it anymore", added the right-back’s representative.

It should be remembered that, in the final stretch of the process, Pedro Porro even missed a Sporting training session, at a time when he was unhappy with the drawn-out negotiations between the two clubs. The transfer would eventually go through as a loan with an obligation to buy, later being made permanent by the London club.

Now established as one of Tottenham’s standout players, Porro is living a very different reality. Even so, his agent recalls that the early days in England were anything but easy. "He received a lot of criticism, especially from Tim Sherwood, but that’s how champions are made", Toni Pla concluded about the former Sporting full-back.

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