I will not be leaving, nobody will take me out of here! After all, why don’t Pinto da Costa and his gang want to leave FC Porto’s SAD-Celebrities

Despite public praise and moments of complicity, behind the scenes there remains a struggle between Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa and the new president of FC Porto, André Villas-Boas.

The now deposed FC Porto leader, aged 86, says that if remains active at SAD until at least the 26ththe date on which Porto plays the Portuguese Cup final.

At stake are also 250 thousand euros in salaries and more than 50 thousand in allowances that Pinto da Costa and the other four administrators of FC Porto’s SAD will also receive: Fernando Gomes, Adelino Caldeira, Vítor Baía and Luís Gonçalves insist on not submitting their resignation and they do not give up their big salaries for the month of May.

With the election of André Villas-Boas, everyone believes that a genuine revolution is coming in the club’s structure. The former coach has already made it known that he will spend the next few years meeting with Dragons employees, but It is certain that he will not want ‘old furniture’ in the house he is now trying to fix, and especially people that Pinto da Costa trusts at the club.

“There are a lot of worried people, a lot of ‘compadres’ who are going to lose their pots. It was many years, it was time“, recently highlighted a source close to FC Porto.