1.5 The fall and rise of Bruno de Carvalho - The difficult second album
A quick recap for you all, in part one of the rise and fall of Bruno de Carvalho we learned how he rose to become the club president which allegedly had been his dream since childhood. In part two we followed his first full season in charge of the club where his first mister Leonardo Jardim led Sporting to a second place finish only to resign before he was pushed owing to his relationship with his boss having completely deteriorated over the course of 12 months. In part three we followed Portugal's bright young thing Marco Silva in his first season of a four year contract which culminated in a third place finish, one place lower than Jardim. However Bruno de Carvalho could at least point to his first title win as club president when they lifted the Taça de Portugal having come back from 2-0 down to Braga and win on penalties after extra time. Was he pleased? Well maybe, but not so much that he hadn't been holding secret talks with another coach behind Silva's back and promp...
