It was only five years since Bruno de Carvalho was first elected president of Sporting CP. It does not sound like the a long time, but que was enough for him to be Involved in a number of controversies que would make a pretty long list.
The 46-year-old received attention in England last year, When calling the West Ham owners ‘Dildo Brothers’ after the unsuccessful Negotiations for the transfer of William Carvalho.
Now Bruno is involved in another clash, this time against his own players. Sporting got to a situation where even the squad can not stand the president anymore, so things are getting quite tense.
It started when Bruno de Carvalho made some heavy comments after Sporting’s 2-0 against Atletico Madrid on Thursday. In a Facebook post, he named and criticized several Sporting players.
That obviously left the squad unhappy. So many made a post on their own social media complaining about the ‘lack of support’ from their president, which was quite understandable. William Carvalho was one of them.
But Bruno de Carvalho wouldn’t take that blow quietly. Now in a new statement, he’s announced that all the players who shared this content are suspended, and will be punished by the club, calling them ‘spoiled’.
That’s 19 players, report O Jogo.
The original post was deleted, though.
That list has some very important players, such as Rui Patrício, Fabio Coentrão, William Carvalho and Gelson Martins. So this is creating a huge situation at the club.
Could this affect the transfer market? In a way, yes. Bruno de Carvalho has three more years in the job, which means the players who stay will have to work under him for much longer unless he quite literally implodes.
But wanting to leave normally does not help either, because the club is known to demand the release clauses to let players go, so the prices are likely to stay the same.