I'm quite tired of all the anti-Pereira arguments that are just incorrect.
1) "He doesn't speak English". Where's the source on that? One journalist: "I believe he can muster the odd sentence, but I'm not sure if he is able to provide a coherent discourse." and that's all there is on that subject.
By the way, the journalist works for PortuGoal, a football site. Not even national media.
2) "He comes from a two-horse competition". So did AVB and Mourinho, and so many other trainers and players. For the people that know the Portuguese competition, they know that's not the case. But as I already said: So is the SPL, and Lennon managed to lose 7 times. But still there are people shouting his name as a possible contender.
Not that that means anything. It's just the easiest way to dismiss this stupid argument.
3) "People at Porto don't like him". Has been explained a number of times, but everyone seems to casually look over this. The chairman has been selling and selling, but supporters seem to blaim Pereira, who had little to say in all this.
4) "He's a coach, no manager". Not true. He was the one that orchestrated the transfers of Defour AND Mangala to Porto. They even bought Mangala for 5mil, in 2 years he's worth 20mil. He has a close connection with Luciano D'Onofrio through his agent (Hentoray, Mirallas' manager), who some of you might know.
Luciano D'Onofrio was the chairman of Standard de Liège when they launched some young talents by the name of Fellaini, Defour, Mangala, Witsel, Dante, ... when they beat us in 2008. They also bought a young Christian Benteke the next year.
So, I hope this clears up the air a bit about our next manager.
VITOR IN.