Diogo Luís accuses Sporting pillar of not giving Rui Borges enough backing | OneFootball

Diogo Luís believes that the Sporting management did not provide Rui Borges with the necessary tools during this transfer window. Despite showing that Frederico Varandas made the right market assessment, the journalist believes that the top leader of the lions failed in securing the main targets of his coach: Alberto Costa and Jota Silva.

“It seems to me that Sporting understood well the gaps that existed. The reinforcement should have included a left-back, a right-back, a midfielder, a winger, and two forwards to compensate for the departure of Gyokeres and Harder's inability to assert himself. The problem arose when targets for each of these positions were identified. Today we all understand that the administration had some targets and the coach had others,” he stated to the newspaper A Bola.

Then, Diogo Luís went through each case, starting with Alberto Costa: “For the right-back position, Rui Borges wanted Alberto Costa. The Sporting structure favored Vagiannidis. Alberto Costa is 21 years old, knows the Portuguese reality, and had already worked with Rui Borges. The investment to hire him was €15 M. Vagiannidis is 23 years old and does not know the Portuguese reality.”

The second example of this disagreement between Sporting's management and Rui Borges was Jota Silva: “Another player requested by the coach that clashed with the green and white administration's intentions. This is very evident from the Sporting management's stance in two distinct cases: Sporting tried to sign Kevin, for whom they offered €37 M in the last days of the market, but did not make a small effort to sign Jota Silva…”.

In conclusion, Diogo Luís spoke about the only request granted by Frederico Varandas, which was Ricardo Mangas, who is expected to make his debut in the Champions League against Kairat: “An express request from the coach that the administration only accepted because the investment was very low. The reality is that the player's performance is, once again, proving the coach right.”

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