Here are the results of the 4th round. Where we saw Sporting beat their rival Porto, and Benfica ended up tying the game, which resulted in the coach being fired.
Porto's situation is not good, they have a squad that in my opinion needs to be improved in order to compete against Sporting, but from what I heard on Portuguese TV channels, Porto is not doing very well financially, which is why they can't afford to make big signings, so they will need to find new players with great skills, after playing for Porto and bringing some titles, they will need to sell these good young players so that the team can earn a lot of money. Well, it turns out that Porto wanted to sell Galeno to Al Ittihad, but for some reason that I don't know, the deal didn't go through just when almost everything was already agreed.
FC Porto statement: “We want to inform SPL chairmain, we’re shocked and disappointed with behaviour on Galeno deal”.
“There was total agreement in place with both Al Ittihad and player side”.
“We’re very happy now to keep Galeno at the club”.
source: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1830730740428087426but Galeno scored 3 goals in 4 games and when you look at how many goals Porto scored, we see that they scored 7 goals in 4 games, this means that Galeno alone scored more than 50% of Porto's goals, so it wouldn't make much sense to sell Galeno that season and they wanted to sell Galeno who scores a lot of goals and they went to sign a defender:
Tiago Djaló and Porto. Done.
source: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1830738449714028927If they had sold Galeno, they would have had a weak attack and would have focused on defense. So I see that the intention of Porto's management is not to win the League as a priority, but rather to improve the club's finances as a priority.
Benfica, which still doesn't have a coach, I also don't see them being able to get good results this season. Even if they brought in a good coach, it would take time for the new coach to put the team on the right path. That's why I see Sporting as the only team best positioned to be champion.