This Wednesday’s meeting ended without final decision: there is no successor-and the departure of the Argentine can cost up to seven million to the Porto coffers. Anselmi’s neck is not the only one at risk in the dragon.
The news began to circulate this Wednesday and the guarantee that Martin Anselmi will be fired FC Portoone afternoon when the administration led by André Villas-Boas met with the coach to talk about the fiasco that has been the portista performance.
However, the day ended and, on the morning of Thursday, is not yet made a definitive decision regarding the continuity of the Argentine in charge of the squad.
The departure may take place in the coming hours “a la roger schmidt” (ie, with agreement for termination, but without official device), but advances this morning that Villas-Boas has reserved the next few days to reflect on whether or not to keep the 39-year-old Argentine ahead of the dragons, following a season marked by results far below expectations And for one at the Club World Cup, where FC Porto was the least scored team and became the first one ever to officially lose against a Concacaf team (Lionel Messi’s last Thursday).
This Wednesday, at the meeting held after the team’s return to Portugal, Anselmi will have presented his arguments to be: he had tried to explain to the Blue and White President that not everything was his fault, using his departure from important players such as Nico González and Galeno, a few days after his debut, and the lack of reinforcements to settling their exit.
Even before the 4th balls with the al Ahly, who dictated the end of the Porto Cup campaign. “I’ve been tolerated a lot and it’s time to punch the table”.
And this Wednesday was not only the future of Anselmi in the dragon that was concerned: Jorge Costa, director of professional football, and Andoni Zubizarretasports director, were also present and the latter, choosing a strong choice of villas-boas in taking power to Pinto da Costa, can have the place at risk for insufficient action regarding reinforcements, he writes.
In the dragon to discuss the future of the team with the entire summit of football.
Exit can cost 7 million
In the midst of turmoil, Vítor Bruno’s successor leaves vacation out of the country this Thursday. Villas-Boas should take this time to put several factors on the scale and make a decision. Because a possible termination of the Argentine contract It will cost to the coffers of FC Porto.
The coach has bond with the club until 2027with an annual salary of about two million euros gross. The early exit may imply a total charge in the order of 7 million eurosif the missing salaries and the amounts paid to Cruz Azul for their hiring (3.1 million euros).
“AVB Traitor, pays another coach,” read in Graffiti this dawn in the walls of the Dragon Stadium, noticed the.
In his first experience in Europe, the young Blue and White Museum coach with trophies, but five months later, the balance is far from positive. Finished third in the championship, eliminated by Roma in the Europa League Play-Off and having Villas-Boas and the clubs at the Club World Cup, not even half of the games won: in 21 games in charge of the dragons, has 10 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses.
Tomás Guimarães, Zap //
