For the past few days, we’ve seen the Portuguese press coming up with a few stories on the future of Sporting manager Ruben Amorim.
It was first claimed that a couple of Premier League sides had made approaches for the 36-year-old, and later revealed that Leeds United were one of them.
Newspaper A Bola was the one saying the Whites made informal contacts and keep him as an option just in case Marcelo Bielsa chooses to go at the end of his contract.
Now just like Leeds won’t make an official offer until they get their situation sorted, it looks it will also take a while until Ruben Amorim gets available to talk as well.
Newspaper Correio da Manhã features a piece today claiming the Sporting coach doesn’t even want to listen to any approaches or offers for now.
The manager knows the Lions spent €12m on his signing at the start of the season, and given his good relationship with director Hugo Viana and president Frederico Varandas, he’ll keep focused on taking the club to the league title.
Correio da Manhã adds that Amorim wants to first ‘consolidate’ his career as a manager and only leaves Sporting ‘for a European giant’.
With the Lisbon side having such an important campaign, it’s quite obvious this kind of response would come from the manager for now. But would he really turn Leeds down?
That we shall see in the future, and it all starts with Bielsa’s decision on his contract with the Whites.
