Former Sporting Club president Bruno de Carvalho has launched a scathing broadside towards Marco Silva, claiming he wanted to sack him after a pre-season training brawl.
Silva was at the helm in Lisbon for just one season between 2014 and 2015, winning the club its first piece of silverware since 2008, but was ultimately sacked at the end of the campaign.
How did Silva fare at Sporting? Five key things to know…
- Silva replaced Leonardo Jardim in 2014.
- He led the club to a third-place Primeira Liga finish and won the Portuguese Cup, but was sacked just four days after the season finished.
- It has been claimed that Silva breached club discipline on more than one occasion, but was ultimately dismissed for not wearing the club’s official suit in a league fixture against FC Vizela.
- The club claimed it had “just cause” for Silva’s sacking, but his dress code breach happened six months before his dismissal.
- Bruno de Carvalho has now claimed he wanted to sack Silva before the season even started.
Sporting relieved Silva of his managerial duties for breaching club regulation for not wearing the club’s official suit during a match against FC Vizela six months prior to his departure from the Jose Alvalade Stadium.
Controversial former president De Carvalho has now claimed that he wanted to sack Silva before a ball was even kicked, citing a number of disagreements between himself and the current Everton boss.
Speaking ahead of the launch of his book, De Carvalho said: “I already decided a long time ago. I wanted to fire Marco Silva in pre-season. It was a total disappointment.”
De Carvalho went on to explain how their relationship “soured for good” after Silva wanted to replace Joao Mario with Federico Carrizo from Rosario Central because his representative was Marco’s businessman, Carlos Goncalves.
He added: “I explained to him that in Sporting, the businessmen and the funds do not make the team.”
De Carvalho’s tenure in the Portuguese capital was largely marred by off-field controversy, including public criticism of his players and suspending 19 first-team members after defeat against Atletico Madrid in the Europa League.
It was a summer of turmoil for the club after nine players quit, including club captain Rui Patricio who joined Wolves, and De Carvalho – a man dubbed the ‘Donald Trump of Portuguese football’ – was voted out by 71 per cent of the club’s 15,000 paying members.
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‘The players did not respect him’
De Carvalho refused to mince his words when describing his acrimonious and fractious relationship with Silva, even going as far as to claim he stopped attending matches just to avoid sitting next to him.
“I even missed some games so I would not sit next to him on the bench in Sporting,” he confessed.
The former president also alleged the Sporting squad had no respect for Silva, insisting he caught a player laughing at the 41-year-old, in a “squad with several elements that did not respect him.”
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