Andrè Villas Boas is the new president of Porto. The former manager (Porto, Chelsea, Tottenham among others) is a president with football ideas different from those of Sergio Conceicao. But this does not mean that the coach of the Dragons, a team he has led for seven seasons now, is leaving for Milan. This is his wish, as the Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola writes. The desire of super agent Jorge Mendes who, after having worked on Rafael Leao’s contract extension with Milan, is also ready to lend a hand on the technical future of the Rossoneri club. The meeting scheduled for the day of his inauguration did not take place.
Conceiçao was on the pitch with the team. The summit will take place in the next few days. A meeting awaited in Italy by the entire Rossoneri management now determined to focus on the Portuguese coach who has a strong bond with the Porto club as well as a contract until 30 June 2028. A contract signed a couple of weeks ago, with the historic president Pinto da Costa, defeated in the last elections by Villas-Boas. A signing worth 28 million euros for the next four seasons. In these seven years with Porto, the former Inter player won three championships, two Portuguese Super Cups, one Taça de Portugal and one Taça de Liga.
This year they finished the championship in third place behind Sporting Lisbon and Benfica with 66 points, -18 behind the first and ten less than their all-time rival. His path in the Champions League was not very fortunate, where he never went beyond the quarter-finals. He doesn’t lack experience, results, especially in the Europe that counts, do. And the few remaining doubts concern his European path and the very little experience he had away from his country. Only one season in France, on the bench of Nantes. In Portugal, however, he coached Olhanense, Braga and Vitoria Guimaraes before spending a season in Ligue 1. With the arrival of Sergio Conceiçao, the club from via Aldo Rossi hopes to be able to relaunch Rafael Leao today in free fall.
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