Sporting midfielder with 14 games dropped to B team | OneFootball

Mateo Tanlongo will play in Sporting's B team during the 2025/26 season. The defensive midfielder arrived at the Alvalade Club in the summer of 2022, and was part of the main squad, then under the command of Ruben Amorim, until he was loaned out due to lack of space in the squad.

However, this was not the plan of Sporting for Tanlongo. Our Journal reveals, in this Leonino Exclusive, that the green and white leaders wanted to sell the Argentine midfielder this summer, and end the three-year connection with the player that the lions rescued from Rosario Central at no cost.

Despite being on the market, after a good season at Pafos in Cyprus, where he won the national title and played 28 games, the offers for Mateo Tanlongo were not enticing enough for Sporting to let go of the defensive midfielder, so the decision was to keep the player, albeit in Sporting's B team.

João Gião, coach of Sporting's secondary squad, thus gains another option for the midfield, in a team that has made a tremendous start in Liga 2, after seven years in the lower divisions. The lions have, so far, three victories in four games played in the second division championship.

Remember that, after being signed by Sporting, Tanlongo was part of the main team, having played 14 games in the 2022/23 season. The performances did not convince the green and white leaders, and the defensive midfielder, originally from Argentina, had three consecutive loans - first to Copenhagen, then at Rio Ave, and finally, last season, at Pafos in Cyprus, where he became national champion.

Check out some of Tanlongo's best moments at Sporting:

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