The elected president of FC Porto, André Villas-Boas, said this Saturday that SAD members from the “dragons” do not understand the will of their members, creating a deadlock in the transmission of evidence.
The Blue and White SAD announced today the co-optation of José Pereira da Costa into the company’s administration, but Villas-Boas’s candidacy rejected the decision soon after because the administration did not agree to give “enhanced powers” to the financial administrator chosen by the newly elected club president.
“We are still at an impasse regarding the co-optation of our administration because none of the SAD administrators want to leave their post and we will only enter the SAD administration if we have full executive power and veto power.” , said Villas-Boas. ahead of the meeting between Porto and Desportivo de Chaves of the I Football League.
Thus, the former coach ensures that they cannot “be hostage to an executive committee that can sign and dictate acts of management” with one of its members already in administration, ensuring that they will only enter with the “resignation of current members or full executive power.” and with the right of veto” Jose Pereira da Costa.
Villas-Boas considered this to be an “unjustifiable prolongation of the situation”, since “all structural decisions are being postponed, such as the construction of a women’s football team, the possible construction of a new modality, renovation work. composition, structuring decisions regarding the academy and then all decisions related to the sports society and the FC Porto group.
“This is all very sad, no one wants to suddenly remove people, now the election result is significant. I recently said that members of the administration were asked to resign from their positions out of humility, this was also the case in competing clubs, where people knew how to understand the will of the members, but here the sports society does not understand the will of the members and is delaying the deadline, just like the president of the SAD , which could have already convened this General Assembly in advance to replace legal entities,” he said.
Villas-Boas says that this is not about “a break with the past, but about accelerating a new life process for Porto, which has long been planned by the partners.”
“FC Porto is united, we are in a legal and bureaucratic impasse that is not justified in any way. People are being urged to resign from their positions with humility because the SAD authorities have already been in administration since December 31, 2023 and have already announced their resignations, some of them, a long time ago. In our opinion, this is disrespect for Porto’s colleagues,” he complained.
According to Villas-Boas, the acceleration of the transfer of portfolios will not interfere with the presence of President Pinto da Costa in the Portuguese Cup final against Sporting on May 26 at the National Stadium.
“We all have great respect for the president, no one cares that he is present at the Cup final, if that were the case, he would always be an honorary president, we would be happy to invite him,” he assured.
According to the Dragons, the first step in the transition between the current and future management of FC Porto SAD will coincide with the inauguration of the club’s new governing bodies for the four-year period 2024-2028, at a session scheduled for Tuesday at 12:00, at stadium “Dragau” in Porto.
Andre Villas-Boas became the 34th president in the history of Porto, with 21,489 votes (80.28%) and victory a week ago in the elections to the governing bodies of the club, breaking a string of 15 mandates and 42 years of rule by Pinto da Koshty. 5224 (19.52%) scored, of which businessman and professor Nuno Lobo – 53 (0.2%).
In the most popular election event ever held among the Dragons, 26,876 members turned out at the Dragau stadium, with 73 blank votes and 37 invalid votes received.
The unprecedented election of 46-year-old Andre Villas-Boas marks the end of the presidency of 86-year-old Pinto da Costa, who had already been in charge of FC Porto since April 17, 1982 and has since become the coach with the most titles and longevity in world football.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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