After selling João Palhinha to Fulham in 2022, Sporting de Portugal took over Hidemasa Morita to reinforce the defensive midfielder. A year earlier, in 2021, the Lisboners had already recovered in health, signing one of the promises of the Portuguese league. We are talking about the Uruguayan Manuel Ugarte, who arrived from Famalicão for 7 M€.
In it José Alvalade, Ugarte has become one of the names of the white squad, participating in 41 games this year. The performance of the Uruguayan, who has a termination clause of 60 M€ has not gone unnoticed in the Premier League. Both Leeds United and Tottenham and Newcastle have already been interested in the Uruguayan international, as he points out Record on its cover.