Sporting Club de Portugal manager Ruben Amorim will be thinking deeply about the prospect of going to Manchester City, with the progression of his career not the only matter under consideration.
That’s according to Record director Bruno Ribeiro, who does however admit that Manchester City is more tempting than other jobs in world football.
Amorim has been heavily linked with a potential move to Manchester City as questions remain about Pep Guardiola’s future.
His contract expires next summer, and he is yet to sign an extension, with reports in England stating his future could be dependent on the outcome of the ongoing legal case with the Premier League.
Should he elect to depart Amorim has been named as a potential replacement, particularly now that Sporting director of football Hugo Viana is set to take charge at the Etihad next summer.
He’s been secured as the replacement for Txiki Begiristain, who is stepping down from his role at the Etihad next year.
He and Amorim have a strong relationship, and the belief is that it could take Amorim to Manchester City, but Ribeiro believes the manager won’t just jump at the opportunity.
“The point is that when you knock on the door, it’s one thing for Aston Villa or West Ham to knock on your door, it’s another thing for Begiristain and Soriano to knock on your door and say go to the club that wins everything at the moment, or you fight to win everything, I mean, and then…” he said.
“I think we haven’t really gotten into Ruben Amorim’s head yet. I think he thinks a lot about things. I think he thinks about the family, I think he thinks about the well-being of the children…
“It clearly doesn’t just have to do with his professional career, but you’ll see that and if it goes through his career, in fact it’s more or less evident that if Ruben Amorim wanted to leave Sporting he would have already left.
“It seems to me that Ruben Amorim doesn’t want to go to a club where he is just another one, that is, another coach who passes through there or another coach who only trains the team.
“The conversation really goes back and forth and it’s not just about money, and it won’t just be about money, for now because Ruben Amorim doesn’t earn anything bad in Portugal and because it seems to me that he doesn’t is the great leitmotif of Ruben’s career.”
