Ex-Sporting president: Betrayal, slams Ruben Amorim, "the cemetery" | OneFootball

Filipe Soares Franco believes that Ruben Amorim betrayed Sporting, by leaving the Alvalade club midway through the season. The former green-and-white President gave an interview to the newspaper Record, where he addressed one of the moments that marked last season, and also took the opportunity to talk about Viktor Gyokeres.

"The cemetery is full of indispensable people. At most, he may have been the cement of that phase of Sporting. Now, I think and still think that Ruben Amorim betrayed Sporting. Period. What is said is that, if Sporting became back-to-back champions, the agreement with Ruben Amorim had a clause that allowed him to leave, as long as he gave prior notice, with I don’t know how many days in advance," Soares Franco began to explain about the former coach, who continues to be criticized in England.

The former President continued: "Now, that clause obviously wasn’t made to be exercised in December, in January, in February. It wasn’t meant to be used then. It was for him to be able to leave and notify Sporting a month or a month and a half before the end of the season, nothing more (...) He didn’t betray contractually. He betrayed morally. It’s a moral betrayal. I was disappointed. Betrayal might be a very strong word, but it caused me enormous disappointment."

Soares Franco then addressed the sale of the club’s former Swedish forward, which he initially assessed as positive: "Very well—no, not just well. I think they sold very well and at the peak, not only of his value but also of Gyökeres’ motivation to be playing for Sporting.

"I think he aspired to make the jump to a club bigger than Sporting or that would pay him more, in a more competitive league, as is the case with Arsenal. For me, his cycle at Sporting had ended," concluded the former President of the lions.

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