I agree with everything you said...The Portuguese club like to abandon their local talent by loaning them to lower clubs for a long time,,or selling them to another lower league...Pathetic :>

It was such a novel thing... a big Portuguese club springing for a young Portuguese player with loads of promise. Then, Micael found himself on the bench for the majority of the 2010-2011 season, and now he's being sent to a foreign team that will probably do the same to him. I wish he had signed for Sporting in '09. He would have been a much more complete player by now.

Also, it's a damn travesty that Benfica's starting line up for the majority of their games this season has been without a single Portuguese. I simply can't believe that they would sell Danilo Pereira and loan out Nelson Oliveira on the grounds that they can't displace Javi Garcia and Saviola respectively. And to make matters worse, they replace these young Portuguese with young foreigners of arguably equal potential, to be understudies to the foreign starting line up. This league is getting less and less Portuguese. Of course these teams have a responsibility to win titles, but they also have a responsibility to the youngsters in their academies.

I believe I echo the sentiment of every Portuguese football fan out there when I say: "WHEN IS THIS SH#T GOING TO STOP!"

I'm not good in math, but...
Tiago+Alves+Silvio+Micael=4 Portuguese players :)

wow...we got falcao....the best hitman around...and we will see if porto is going to miss falcao...i think so...falcao is better than hulk...everybody who follows liga sagres knows falcao is better!!

i think theyre both great signings for us. mangala is a young promising centre back whos been tipped to shine. defour as a lot of us know is quality and should do well at fc. porto but what happens to guarin or moutinho. does this mean one of them is leaving? but regardless great signing for us. im realy happy about this

I'm confident with this two signings. Time will tell that the price Porto paid for both was little. Luciano D'Onofrio made a good work on Standard Liege on last 5 years, a shame he left the club this year.

Number 4 Johnieo:
Tell me two or three players from under-20 national team that would be a regular on the big three.

Number 2 Reis:
ahahahah the quote of the day!

Great business moves by FCP. Why are some of you so uptight about buying or selling Portuguese players??? The mostimportant thing is signing the best players on the cheap and selling them at a major profit. Would you prefer to see our FCP with more home grown players and less European hardware?

First I wanted to apologize to tiago and other Porto fans.
I guess my prejudice vs Sporting still shines through when talking about Moutinho.
I still say that Moutinho is over valued by most Portuguese.
I also think that Beluschi isn't very good either, which saddens me to hear that Micael might be on the move.
I really thought that Micael was going to show himself well.

As for these signings, I think they're great.
It will bring in quality for the midfield and strengthen the defense.
As usual Porto continues to make great decisions. Especially if they are ablet to get 50 mil out of Atletico Madrid. Obviously, nobody there knows what they are doing.
I for one, don't think that Porto will miss Falcao that much.

Unlike many, I rejoice in seeing a ton Portuguese players playing abroad. It's incredible how many Portuguese players are "World Class" and wanted by so many "Big" clubs.
Atletico Madrid being the exception.

Atletico Madrid quota of Portuguese players to five, that's more then what Porto, Sporting and Benfica have combined on their starting line up, SOOOO sad. Real ! also has Five Portuguese players there Ronaldo, Pepe, Carvalho, Coentrao and Mourinho... Bediktas in Turkey has Eight , looks like Portuguese players are only good enough to play in other teams.