Its quite disspointing that a team that the reached semi -finals of Europa league last season are languishing at the bottom of the table in their own country . Dont players have any pride.

The players are just as much too blame as the coach.

I know that most feel that managers need to be given time, but...
Defensive lapses, lackadaisical performances and offensive ineptness.
Sa Pinto had to go.
People are forgetting that he had half of last season with the squad. If anything they should have been building on last year, yet they regressed. Pinto was out of his depth.

I thought that what Paciencia did to Braga (announcing his move to Sporting with a match vs Sporting left), was horrible and inexcusable. But if Sporting needed to stick with a manager it should have been him.

Look sorry if i offend any sporting fans but I think Sporting has gone from worse to worse since this guy (Godinho Lopes) took over. Two coaches already, fourth place finish last year in the league (year before 3rd) lack of squad co-hesion and spiralling financial debt. Sa Pinto is not the problem it's the leadership of the club i.e. there is none. There does not seem to be any logic in the decisions management makes. i mean why hire Paciencia, allow him to assemble a squad of players (with money the club didn't have) he wants to play his style of football, then just as they are starting to gel sack him and replace him with someone new who has no funds to buy players to fit his system. To be honest i think Sa Pinto has done extremely well (ie 4th place in Europa, beating Man city, Benfica) with the Sporting team he inhertited and the pressure he must of been under at the club.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but it was built on a solid foundation with a team of people who had a dream, structure and plan. Godinho Lopes has none of this. Gondinho Lopes needs to take responsibility as this mess is totally his fault. If he cared about the club (and not his ego) then he would walk away, resign and allow someone else like De Carvalho to run the club.

I hope this is a turning point for the club. Benfica and Porto fans shouldn't see this as poetic justice because it affects them too. Sporting has several high paid players and need to go deep in Europe for the extra revenue.

Sporting cannot become like Glasgow Rangers or Fiorentina. Not in this economic climate and not with their expensive stadium. Benfica, Porto, Braga and the other teams all rely on revenue from one another for success.

I'm not going to blame foreign players for this because that would be unfair. But, they have a great academy, I don't understand why they have gone away from that over the last two years.

Benfica and Porto have had alot of success buying cheap foreign players and then selling them at huge profits. But the fact is that these teams did not start with the debt that Sporting has right now.

A much more logical model is Barcelona. They developed many players through their academy and then spent money in some key areas. That's the model for Sporting. Foreign coach or no foreign coach, Sporting needs a saviour.

Let's not forget that this team has several players that could be the stars of the future for the seleccao. Esgaio, Joao Mario, Wilson Eduardo, Bruma and Betinho could be corner stones for the next golden generation of Portuguese Futebol.

Sporting was well established with their academy of players. Then they think they can compete financially and that just pile up the foreign talent for what? They should of sticked with the perierinhas, martins, perieras but NO! out goes the academy of players that know what it means to play for Sporting.

Instead lets bring in fresh blood from abroad. Look these guys could be great players but they don't know the first thing about having Sporting in their hearts or the portuguese game. I'm not a sporting fan but this was by far the worst mistake this Franchise has made. Hope they can steer the ship away from the Tsunami that's heading their way.

I'm not a sporting fan but I will pull for them internationally. Bring up the next CR7s, Nani, Figos...etc this franchise deservers better. Now with Braga in full stride Sporting will be lucky to catch a break.

every manger go to sporting become mud.every manager go to Barga become gold.

I said it right here before NO ONE HERE HAD THE BALLS TO SAY IT, HE NEED TO BE GONE,, NOW LETS GET GODINHO OUT PLEASE!!! BEFORE i THROW UP

There's such a disconnect in the sporting philosophy the last few years. The sporting academy is one of the best in the world in developing football talent yet two years ago the team decided to buy an entire lineup in one year of talent from every country on earth and expected them to gel over night. It's impossible to do. There are too many different styles of play, language barriers and cultural difference that take time to overcome. Meanwhile a very strong crop of young talent is being forgotten about or sold dirt cheap before they ever play for the senior team and can command serious transfer fees that can actually help with sportings financial problems. If you look at this team as a business their greatest asset is their academy, but to get true value for that asset you need those players to be promoted to the first team and develop completely before selling them.

My biggest fear is that the academy will one day go to hell like the senior team but thankfully that hasn't happened yet as sporting probably has one of their best batch of young players in the academy at this time from everything I've read. Just give them a chance to shine before trying to cash in on them.

What do you do in a crisis? Well if this is true, then it seems as though the answer is to get rid of the glue trying to hold the pieces together. Although I did not see this game, the fact is that the final score speaks louder than the importance of the game. It is only the second group match, and with a draw between the other two teams, the group hasn't quite got out of reach for Sporting. There is certainly enough of an opportunity, given the opponents, to top the group and make it through.

As others have said, it would be wise to give him until the end of the season to sort things out. If a new coach is to be brought in then, then so be it...but to bring in someone new now would create a total disaster. The slope is slippery, but it certainly isn;t free fall.

Tough times yes, but a knee jerk reaction is not what is necessary, nor helpful.

What took so long? He should have been fired. Team is not listening to him. Lopes should go to!

Sporting firing a coach, Established since 2009. Paulo Bento, Carlos Carvalhal , Paulo Sérgio, José Couceiro, Domingos Paciência, and now Ricardo Sá Pinto. As a famous WCW wrestler, Goldberg once said, "WHO'S NEXT!!!?"

I'm hearing Luiz Felipe Scolari is rumored for the job. I wouldn't mind seeing one of the best Portuguese National Team Managers back in Portugal.