Sporting completed against Estoril, the game that marked the return of the leonina team to triumphs, the eighth official meeting of the season, but what was SAD’s biggest investment in the summer market has, so far, a single minute of play. But the situation could change as early as next Friday, the day the lion receives the Marítimo, in Alvalade. Everything indicates that at this meeting Manuel Ugarte will come out of the shadows and could even be one of Rúben Amorim’s surprises.
The young (20 years old) midfielder for whom Sporting paid 6.5 M euros to Famalicão in the last season for half the pass can finally make his first game as a lion in the chest and there are several reasons for the meager use that met so far.
The first has to do with hiring itself, a new player who joins a new club, a coach with a new game idea and, above all, new teammates. Given this, Ugarte necessarily had to comply with a period of adaptation, not to mention the fact that even in the pre-season, in Famalicão, he tested positive for Covid.
But the main reason for such little use has to do with… João Palhinha.
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