1.9 The Rise and Fall of Bruno de Carvalho - The Court Cases: Testimony of the coaching Staff
In our last part we looked specifically at what happened to the Sporting Clube de Portugal players who tried to legally rescind their contracts with the Sporting SAD following the attacks at Alcochete on May 15th, 2018. Nine players took the initial option to rescind citing the same just cause that the club had used to get out of their contract with coach Marco Silva at the end of Bruno de Carvalho's second full season as club president. Three players eventually signed new contracts: Battaglia, Bas Dost and Bruno Fernandes. Over the next four years of legal wranglings deals were struck with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Olympiacos, Real Betis, Atlético de Madrid and Lille over Patrício, Podence, William, Gelson and Rafa Leão. The case of Rúben Ribeiro ended up with him winning but at the cost of nearly four years of his life tangled up in the stress and cost of court cases. So just six players eventually left because of the attacks. It could have been a lot worse and ultimately in all b...
