Europa League. A “vecchia signora” worth 210 million euros more than the “lion”

Sporting CP will face Juventus in the quarter-finals of the Europa League and according to the result of the draw that took place this Friday in Nyon, Switzerland, the “lions” will be able to face Manchester United or Manchester United in the next phase. Sevilla if they supplant the next opponent in this competition.

Rúben Amorim’s ‘eleven’ plays the first game in Turin, on April 13, and the second at Estádio José Alvalade, in Lisbon, on the 20th of the same month.

The fourth ranked in the Portuguese League, whose squad is valued at 233 million euros by the “Transfermarkt” website, will face Juventus, one of the great disappointments of Serie A this season, due to the position it occupies in the main Italian league. However, one must not forget that this Juventus has already won all UEFA competitions: a Champions League, a European Cup, three editions of the UEFA Cup and two Super Cups. Only the Europa League is missing from the ‘Juve’ museum.

Juventus has a squad valued at 443 million euros on the same platform but is in a very delicate situation on the table: it lost 15 points in the secretariat for financial irregularities in the transfer of players and this penalty threw the mythical “vecchia signora” of European football to seventh place in the table, outside of any eligible place for European competition.

And this is where things can get complicated for the “lions”. If Juventus does not win its appeal against this penalty, the Europa League could become the only one through which Juventus can participate in a European competition next season.

As for the sum won in UEFA, Sporting CP left the Champions League with 34.6 million guaranteed but the campaign in the Europa League and passage of two qualifiers has already added a few more million to the accounts that SAD will charge UEFA at the end of the season . For now, 38.17 million euros are guaranteed. If the “green and whites” make it to the semi-finals of the competition, they will add another 2.8 million euros to this cake.

If the “lions” manage to win the Europa League (the final will be played on May 31 in Budapest, the capital of Hungary), Sporting CP will get the much-desired direct spot for the Champions League and collect over 14.4 million euros euros.

The ‘green and white’, winners of the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1963/64, add up to two presences in the ‘quarters’, which they surpassed in 2011/12, against the Ukrainians of Metalist Kharkiv, and in which they ‘fell’ in 2017/18, against Atletico Madrid.