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Winner of the Copa Libertadores and the Brazilian championship, Botafogo is preparing to experience a shocking offseason. Many players have or will leave the club, and the coach, Artur Jorge, is expected to follow.
It’s a real end of the cycle. Botafogo has just completed an extraordinary season, with two historic titles. By winning the Copa Libertadores and the Brazilian championship, the team led by Artur Jorge completed two superb journeys. But this offseason, the club majority owned by Eagle Fooball Holdings and John Weaver is about to experience a big upheaval. Globo tells us that the Portuguese coach is heading towards a departure for Qatar.
He would thus have an agreement with the Al-Rayyan team. To attract him, she would have blown her termination clause of two million euros. How can we explain this end of the adventure for the technician who arrived in April 2024? There are several points of disagreement between the 52-year-old coach and management.
More than 10 departures from the squad
The negotiations to extend his contract, and the revaluation going with it, failed, even if the Carioca staff wanted to continue with him. He would nevertheless have been disappointed by the fact that Artur Jorge never mentioned the sequel with Fogo’ during his last interviews. Remember that its lease extended until December 2025.
The Brazilian champion will, in addition to his coach, lose several more or less important members of the squad. Thiago Almada mainly, but also Adryelson, Marçal, Rafael, Tchê Tchê or even Hugo. In total, ten players, at least, will not resume with Botafogo. Remaining with a defeat upon entering the Intercontinental Cup against Pachuca (0-3), he will return to competition on January 11 with the championship in Rio de Janeiro. In uncertainty therefore at the moment T.
