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All the other titles have been shared between Benfica and Porto.

“In his second season, they spent €100 million on transfers, which is an absolutely astronomical fee in terms of Portuguese football.

“He relied on a lot of the youth players at Sporting.



you really cannot overstate how he’s changed Sporting, but I think even the face of Portuguese football these last four years.

“They had a poor season last year, and off the back of that when they started better this season, he said immediately, “Look, the size of this club, we have to be fighting for titles every season.

If we don’t win anything this season, I’m leaving.” It just seems to have motivated the players.”

On his player management: “Amorim manages to get the best out of his players and the best out of I’d say older players and players who you really wouldn’t expect him to improve.

“Sebastian Coates, who’s become an absolute cult hero, a good decent player, but you wouldn’t really say top-class player, quite mistake-prone.

He changed the system to three at the back and it just suited him completely down to the ground.

“At Liverpool, on the one hand, he’ll have players who don’t need improvement, some of the best players in the world; Salah, Van Dijk, Alisson.

Sporting has scored more goals this season than any other Portuguese side this century.”

On how he will approach signings: “With recruitment, it’s not really comparable what he has to do at Sporting and what he’s got the opportunity to do at Liverpool.

“They signed Viktor Gyökeres last season for €20m, a record signing, Liverpool bought a player for £20m and he’s probably a bench player, isn’t he?”

On how people will respond to him leaving Sporting Lisbon: “There will be no hard feelings at all.

Because it’s inevitable in Portugal that, you know, whenever a player starts doing really well, or a manager starts doing really well, he moves on to a more highly prestigious league.

“People just look at that and obviously it’s frustrating, but they’re realistic as well.

“Some people are saying in Portugal, he’s the best coach since José Mourinho.