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Trincão was sold to Barcelona in January for 31 million euros.
Ricardo Sá Pinto wanted to do without Trincão, now in Barcelona, in the January market, announced this Thursday the president of Sporting de Braga, António Salvador.
“In a meeting with the exploration director in late November [de 2019], to prepare [o mercado de] In January, Sá Pinto wanted to do without Trincão. I said that this was impossible, that we could not do without one of the greatest talents in world football, and it happened. Trincão is a great player who will mark a decade as the best player in Portuguese football, ”he said.
Trincão was sold to Barcelona in January for 31 million euros, the largest transfer ever made by Sporting de Braga, but continued until the end of the season at Minho.
António Salvador, who intervened in an interview with NEXT, the club’s television channel that broadcasts over the Internet and which inaugurated new facilities, praised Carlos Carvalhal, “one of the best coaches in Portuguese football and even in Europe,” expressing the desire to continue with the coach even after the two-year contract.
About next season, he said he “doesn’t promise anything.”
“[Em] Every game, whatever the field, we will fight for victory. I think we will have a great season. We have no limit of ambition. In this house no one lives well with defeat or draw. We want to win, whether with Benfica, Porto or Sporting and in Europe ”, he said.
The president of the ‘arsenalistas’ considers that Sporting de Braga has “a large squad”, stressed that the reinforcements came “with the endorsement” of the coach and that, until the market closes, “anything can happen”, highlighting that “If nobody else leaves, nobody else can come in.”
“We have a great point guard, there were only two who played regularly, one who played, Palhinha, but Trincão only played in the second round, he only played after Sá Pinto left the club,” he recalled.
On Paulinho, he said he was a “very important player” from whom he has received “many approaches, but there were no concrete proposals that serve the interests of the club.”
“Paulinho would like to jump into a competitive league. Besides the financial issue, he believes that it is time to go, but he must realize that if he does not leave, he must continue working to be the best scorer in the championship or to go to the national team ”, he pointed out.
António Salvador also revealed that the covid-19 pandemic “helped” Gaitán to see Braga.
“Her future [pós-futebol] it can pass through Portugal and that facilitated the agreement. In a conversation with him, he told me that he would play for Benfica or Braga. It was easy to reach an agreement with a talented player, who will continue to give a lot to Portuguese football, even because of the humility he has, “he said.
The coach praised the quality of Sporting de Braga’s training football, noting that there were no reinforcements for the U19, U23 and Team B teams, and gave the example of Rodrigo Gomes, who is expected to be “one of the best players “. Portuguese “.
The partners have to realize that Sporting de Braga is a selling club, that to maintain this level we need to have annual capital gains of 15 million euros ”, he said.
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