Comments on: Porto keep selling their star players

By: Gerry C

Gerry C — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:32:23 +0000

The way I see it many people are far too ignorant and disrespectful of Porto… even the professional footballers themselves!

The reason I say this is because if you were to ask all the ‘big name’ players where they wanted to play thier football I can guarantee you that none of them would ever say “I want to play for FC Porto in the Portuguese Super Liga!”. Reason being because to be honest the at some clubs level/standard of football is fairly low and money is also not great.

So why bother trying to persuade and pursue all the ‘Superstars’ to join the club when we all know they wont… they’d rather all be sitting on the bench for Madrid but earning more in a year than everyone who’s posted above will do in a lifetime.

So thats why Porto do what they do… they get the players with quality that want the opportunity to play for a great club. We dont need to buy Ronaldo’s, Kaka’s or Benzema’s… we make them! To top that it’s for a cheap price and then in a season or two we sell them on again to all the rich clubs for a huge profit!

I agree that I have no clue where the hell all that money goes (and I hope it’s going to good use) but thats the art that FC Porto has mastered and that no other club in the world has ever managed to achive to such a high standard as Porto.

By: Johnathan Long

Johnathan Long — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:12:29 +0000

First off I know Porto is a tremendously GREAT club! I know tons of people have come through that place and are now stars. Secondly calm down. I know how great Porto is and I’m not taking away there dues. What I meant by where is the money going, is why haven’t they signed any BIG NAME players. I know they’ve made plenty of signings just I figure with all that money they got for Lucho and Lopez that they would have gotten someone with a bit more prestige behind his name. I know they have a huge ability for development and getting big money for players but it seemed like this year they were on the VERGE or going over board with the transfers. I mean with the Bruno rumours and selling off of Lucho,and now Lopez it was my opnion to simply state who would they have left besides Rodriguez and Hulk that are really mainstream names? AND yes they are a always a big team to watch for in the Champions League but honestly I doubt anyone knew they’d do so well against Mun Untd. SO CALM DOWN obviously no one is doubting your Favorite club (obviously) just making an observation and putting my opinion out there to be talked about.

By: Piresma

Piresma — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:50:27 +0000

Porto have one of the greatest scouting and transfer systems in the world, every year they constantly sell off big name players like Deco, Carvalho, Valente, Ferreira, Maniche, McCarthy, Quaresma, Anderson, Lucho, Lopez (just to name a few!), and yet they always seem to find players capable of filling the gaps left behind without going into debt.. I miss some of the players i won’t lie but Porto will always be a european force.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:42:11 +0000

Also worth noting that FC Porto have won the European cup twice, once in the old format and in the current one. They have also won the Uefa Cup, European Super Cup (having contested 3 finals) and the intercontinental cup twice. They also appeared in the final of the Cup Winners Cup and played against what is undoubtely one of the greatest teams of our time.

so really “Last years very un-expected run” is only unexpected if you are ignorant to the size of the club.

By: Boloholo

Boloholo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:49:23 +0000

haha you got the point daniel…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:47:19 +0000

What is Johnathan Long talking about and how lacking is his knowledge on both footballing matters and FC Porto?

So Far Porto have sold :-

Lucho González – to Marseilles for 18,000,000 €
and
Lisandro López to Lyon for 24,000,000 €

so in terms of Star players, we’ve sold the massive total of two! we have also managed to sell off some of our fringe players.

We have signed:-

Beto from Leixões – 750,000 €
Orlando Sá from SC Braga
Miguel Lopes from Rio Ave – 600,000 €
Silvestre Varela from Estrela Amadora – 750,000 €
Maicon from CD Nacional – 1,100,000 €
Alvaro Pereira from CFR Cluj – 4,500,000 €
Fernando Belluschi from Olympiakos FC – 5,000,000 €
Falcao from River Plate – 5,500,000 €

so we’ve brought in a fair amount of talent.

This is the perpetual cycle that a club like FC Porto is on, we have a fantastic scouting system, buy players on the cheap, develop them then sell them on for big money and in nearly 30 years I haven’t seen them lose their competitive edge very often.