Unlike most presidential campaigns dotted around the Mediterranean footballing panorama, the hunt for the top job at Sporting included no new managerial promises to sweeten budding members of the club during Septmeber's emergency elections, with each remaining candidate sticking by José Peseiro and his winning start to the 2018/19 season. Large pockets of the Lions support had been less than convinced by the 2005 UEFA Cup finalist, however, meaning that it was only a matter of time before the new club president, Frederico Varandas, called for a conclusion on Peseiro’s tenure.
The aftermath of Sporting’s 2-1 loss to Estoril in the League Cup, resulting in Peseiro’s sacking, brought forward fresh calls for the Green & Whites to appoint a domestic manager, familiar with the demands of the Primeira Liga, that translated into the likes of Paulo Sousa and Miguel Cardoso finding their way onto the front pages. The newly-elected club president holds a different vision, however, turning instead to Dutch boss Marcel Keizer, formerly of the Emirati club Al-Jazira, to lead the way in a new era for the title-hungry club. But just who is the man Varandas has chosen to back?
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In a week where Portuguese football claimed its first managerial casualty, following the sacking of Sporting’s José Peseiro, the pressure was also ramped up on others dotted within the Primeira Liga top-spots, none more so than at the helm of Lisbon rivals Benfica.
José Peseiro has been sacked in the wake of a harrowing Halloween night performance by Sporting, who fell to a 2-1 home defeat against second-tier Estoril at Alvalade on Wednesday evening. 