Alvaro Pacheco with the door open to leave in. Guimarães at the end of the season – in. Guimarães

Antonio Miguel Cardoso did not like the coach’s meeting with Cuiabá and thought of ending it immediately

However, according to information collected by our newspaper, Antonio Miguel Cardoso raised the possibility of moving towards negotiation with the aim of terminating the contract immediately, but this scenario has been ruled out, depending on the goals that the Victorian team can still secure these last three league matches, which are supposed to It will only be held at the end of the 2023/24 season.

Accounts regarding the concrete origin of this rift between the coach and the club president of Guimarães end up contradictory. Sources familiar with the process confirm that Antonio Miguel Cardoso did not like the openness shown by Alvaro Pacheco to move to Cuiabá in the short term, now or at the end of the season.

Moreover: The meeting that the coach had with the president of the Brazilian club in a Lisbon restaurant was considered an insult. In terms of logic, those responsible for Vitoria claim that Alvaro Pacheco should have denied this meeting, or at least the way it happened, because if the coach had intended to say “no” he would have done so in other ways and in other ways..

On the other hand, according to a source linked to the coach, Cuiabá’s interest was primarily directed at the Vitoria president, so Alvaro Pacheco did what he did with the knowledge and inherent “mandate” of the club, otherwise he would have done it. I never did so I have a €1 million termination clause and I’m not allowed to have talks.

In fact, the coach never thought about leaving before the end of the season, although he had already received very interesting financial offers even from other clubs and not just Cuiabá, whose offers were in numbers much higher than those received by Alvaro Pacheco at this time of the year. Guimarães.

What is certain is that this incident has caused clear discomfort between the two parties and only a radical rapprochement in the coming weeks will be able to prevent the departure of Alvaro Pacheco from Vitoria, who has the coach under a contract until 2025.

Written by Antonio Méndez, Pedro Moraes and Bruno Freitas