The Portuguese press is always following how the local players and managers are doing around Europe, and Carlos Carvalhal’s job at Sheffield Wednesday has always deserved special attention from the papers.
However, now that things are not going so well for the Owls manager, it couldn’t be more different, and the outlets from Lisbon are all covering the small crisis that the club are in.
Newspaper A Bola has covered Carvalhal’s anger in the latest press conference, when he screwed up and punched a £20 note just to show that his team won’t be destroyed so easily.
They write that despite wanting to show his squad’s worth, the manager ended up becoming viral for his attitude towards the journalists.
Record has more of a complete story, talking about the two other times that Carvalhal was involved in controversies this season, which were when a fan confronted him, and the time when he argued with a steward after being sent off against Bolton.But the newspaper still manages to say that things aren’t that bad, as they compare these first sequence of games to the start of the two other seasons he had at Wednesday.
The club currently has 13 points in nine matches, and that’s not much different from the 14 they had last season or the 12 in Carvalhal’s first nine games at the Championship side in 2015/16.
They also show that the Portuguese boss is third in the rankings of Sheffield Wednesday’s managers with the biggest win rate, and make sure to be positive about a way out of this bad sequence he’s been in.
