Sporting Lisbon are asking to be compensated after Gelson Martin’s move to Atletico Madrid earlier this week. Atletico signed the winger on a six-year contract after taking advantage of chaos at Sporting, the Portugal international’s former club. The Cape Verde-born winger, who moved on a free transfer, succeeded in getting his release from Sporting after
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ESPN’s Arsenal correspondent Mattias Karen feels Arsenal need to bring in several key defenders if the club is to challenge for sivlerware. Arsene Wenger says Arsenal failed to sign Cristiano Ronaldo as a teenager because they wouldn’t match Manchester United’s £12 million bid for Sporting CP starlet. Wenger identified Ronaldo as the player he most
Atletico Madrid will hope to put one foot in the Europa League semi-finals when they host Sporting Lisbon on Thursday.Atletico welcome their Portuguese opponents in the quarter-final first leg having won all four of their previous games in this season’s competition, having dropped out of the Champions League.And defender Diego Godin hopes Atleti can take
Roma boss Eusebio Di Francesco plans to stick by striker Edin Dzeko despite Chelsea’s reported interest. Roma have signed Argentine left-back Jonathan Silva on loan from Sporting Lisbon until the end of the season with a view to a permanent deal. Silva, 23, has been capped twice by his country and joined Sporting in 2014
Shaka Hislop and Ross Dyer sift through the latest transfer rumours from around world football, including Man City’s chances of landing West Brom’s Jonny Evans. There are two teams called Benfica in Lisbon. One is SL Benfica, the Portuguese champions famous around the globe. The other is CF Benfica, a tiny club established about three
Sporting coach Jorge Jesus feels his side can take heart from their performance last time out against Barcelona, when they suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat.“The confidence and determination that the players of Sporting will have will be bigger than those of Juventus,” he said at a press conference, as quoted on the club’s official Twitter
Barcelona needed an own goal to stay top of Group D as they only just managed to scrape past Sporting Lisbon. With many questions surrounding Barca during preseason, Ale Moreno feels they are certainly proving their doubters wrong. A young fan ran onto the Sporting Lisbon pitch, where Cristiano Ronaldo made a name for himself,
While his side may be sweeping all before them, Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde remains determined to keep everyone grounded.“At the start of the season people were saying we were a disaster, now that we are winning games it has all changed,” Valverde said at a press conference in Lisbon on Tuesday evening.“I know the media