Andre Villas-Boas and Sergio Conceicao will meet tomorrow to determine the status of the coach, who has a contract until 2028, but whose continuity is seriously at risk. The events of the past few days have theoretically reduced the chances of Sergio Conceicao remaining at the helm of Porto. The breakup with Vitor Bruno, assistant for more than a decade, seems irreparable, so even if the head coach remains, the oldest technical team in the league will undergo changes.
Five weeks after the club elections and eight days after taking charge of SAD, Villas-Boas became urgent to solve the technical problem. If Sergio Conceicao’s departure is confirmed, it is necessary to know whether he will do so by forgoing the sums inherent in the further four years of the contract as he has already promised or whether he will demand compensation.
If Conceição leaves, Vitor Bruno appears to be a strong candidate to succeed him. The son of Vitor Manuel, the former coach who played 511 league matches, between 1984 and 2004, also began his coaching career, after being a mediocre player, in Central Region teams, including Academica. He started as a coach in 2009, in Angola, at Interclub, where he was assistant to Augusto Inacio, then assisted his father on August 1. In the 2009-2010 season, he was Inacio’s assistant at Naval Club and the following season with Leixues Club. In the 2011/12 season, he became assistant to Sergio Conceição at Olhanense, beginning a relationship that would last twelve years, seven of which were at FC Porto.
The crust broke between the two after Vitor Bruno this week informed Sergio Conceicao that he would pursue a solo career, possibly in Qatar. Villas-Boas has since informed Conceição of the possibility of Vitor Bruno taking over the management of Banco de Porto, as of 2024/25. He felt betrayed by the MP and the president, which deepened the impasse in resolving a problem that could be solved tomorrow.
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