“In 2018 we had a B team that went down a division and was deactivated. A clumsiness. Then we had a U-23 team with players aged 21, 22 and 23 with high salaries. Return? None. Today we have an Under-23 team with an elite group of 15 and 16-year-old players. Many of them reaching the first team, such as Tiago Tomás, Eduardo Quaresma or Nuno Mendes (…) Sporting paid 500 thousand euros for 50% of Matheus Nunes’ pass and can buy another 40% for another 500 thousand. What I have seen of Matheus Nunes, the way he trains today, alongside a Doumbia, a Battaglia or a Vietto, I have no doubt that only Matheus Nunes will pay Rúben Amorim. You can write. What I am saying is that what is expensive is sometimes cheap”, Frederico Varandas had predicted in May 2020.
“If the pandemic had been a year ago, Sporting would have collapsed economically.” Balconies over the past, present and future of the club
More than two years later, even the prophecy was fulfilled: looking only at the round figure of ten million euros, it came out for 4.5 times more; seeing the total cost of the trainer for Sp. Braga, he came out for triple. And before Nuno Mendes had also won 45 million euros after being integrated into the group of youngsters promoted by the coach in 2019/20 for the last ten games of the season after the first confinement due to the pandemic. Also for that reason, Sporting left a message goodbye player, admitting the sports “blow” in the face of an almost financial need.
Now it’s official: Matheus Nunes at Wolves for €45m (and a contract just like the one he turned down earlier)
“Sporting said goodbye to Matheus Nunes, who headed for the Premier League and Bruno Lage’s Wolverhampton. 101 games with a lion on his chest, a Championship, a Super Cup, two League Cups, eight goals scored and nine assists, with eight international matches and one goal scored by the National Team. A painful sale from a sporting point of view, but indispensable for the sustainability of the club”, wrote Miguel Braga, director of communication for the club, in the editorial of the club’s newspaper.
Deal Done: Varandas Accepts Wolverhampton Proposal and Matheus Nunes Becomes Sporting’s Second Biggest Sale
“Just two years ago, the guarantee given by president Frederico Varandas that only Matheus would pay for the investment made in the coach was met with skepticism by the football world. It is now certain and known that the boy who served cakes in the Ericeira pastry shop and applied for GDU Ericeirense turned into a star May you have all the luck in the world in the next chapters”, he recalled in the same text.
In May, Varandas said that Matheus was going to pay Amorim. Now, Matheus has paid for the victory in the derby
“I will never stop supporting Sporting, I will be a lion forever. I will always be the breed that will never bow down. Everything that I am conquering today I owe to Sporting. Sporting gave me everything when I was nothing.” I wrote the player on social networks in the farewell of the Alvalade club, after it was made official on the night of this fourth-fair as a reinforcement of Wolverhampton for a value of 45 thousand euros plus five thousand goals and 10% more value of a future transfer in the next years.
A lion forever ????
Good luck, Matheus Nunes! #Thanks Matheus pic.twitter.com/KtqR3XF7dv
– Sporting Club of Portugal (@Sporting_CP) August 18, 2022
Source: Observadora
