When the news returned from Milan to Lisbon, the whole of Portugal was devastated.

There are two teams in the Portuguese Super League competing in the Champions League this season, Sporting Lisbon and Boavista.

As a result, both teams failed in the third round of qualifying and failed to enter the first round of the group stage.

Among them, Boavista suffered losses in the summer transfer and lost to Auxerre in Ligue 1, which is understandable. As the defending champion of the Portuguese Super League, Sporting Lisbon lost against Inter Milan.

The crux of the problem is that Sporting Lisbon played too weakly.

Especially the team's offense.

Why Nikolai?

This time, not only the Portuguese media and Sporting Lisbon fans couldn't sit still, but even several veterans in the team were slightly dissatisfied.

Captain Barbosa said in an interview that the team's offense has a problem, which needs to be solved as soon as possible because the Portuguese Super League is about to start.

Albertini, who just joined, also publicly stated in an interview with the media that poor offense was the main reason for Sporting Lisbon's failure in the Super Cup and Champions League qualifiers.

"This has a huge impact on the morale of the team."

Everyone knows that Albertini joined Sporting Lisbon because he wanted to play in the Champions League, but now he is stuck in the qualifiers, which is really hard for him to accept.

More importantly, after playing for Inter Milan, Jardel, the team's number one star, angrily criticized coach Boloni's nepotism and publicly stated that he would leave Sporting Lisbon and switch to Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.

"Maybe it's not a good time, but I hope to get more trust."
Chapter completed!