haha how are Quaresma and Varela both on your NT squad those 2 suck. Isn't Varela a sub at Porto? I went to check out why not more players from Porto and they have no Portuguese players !!
Why didn't you guys nationalize Maicon?
No, he´s a starter, that´s how good our wingers are, that´s also the reason why we took such a big gamble on signing Quaresma in January, we were playing with Varela and Lica on the wings, or Josué, who a CM/ AMC!
About Maicon, here we don´t have the rule that limits the number of foreigners or players outside the EU on the team, that´s why Porto and Benfica have so little portuguese players, and the ones we have are squad players. He´s not good enough anyway, we have better options on the squad.
Porto typical 11 only has Varela and Quaresma as starters, Benfica has none. Sporting has a lot because of his youth academy and shaky financial situation that made them rely on the youth even more this year.
Even though the portuguese youngsters have talent the don´t make the money make the cycle everybody wants to get their piece of it.
If we go outside to buy a talent we pay more everything, the transfer fee, a higher salary than the one we would pay for a kid from our clubs, the agent gets a cut, then we can sell a % of the pass to a fund to buy back after for more and they get a cut and so on.
That´s the reason why Porto and Benfica need to sell every year despite how big fees we get, a lot of the money is melted on the process to please everybody.
Sporting was/is on the verge of the financial breakdown, but they already made severe changes on the management of the club, Porto and Benfica didn´t because they keep on making big deals, when one, or both, of this teams struggle for a couple of years out of the CL or without selling for +50M per season you´ll hear what will happen on the news, we´ll have to do what Sporting is doing and go back from the squads with limited talent and do as best as we can. But no one wants to face the truth and so they keep pushing the problem forward.