Sporting Lisbon’s owners call West Ham’s owners ‘Dildo Brothers’ over legal threats stemming from failed transfer

One of the more bizarre transfer sagas towards the end of the summer transfer window was the rumored move of Sporting Lisbon midfielder William Carvalho to West Ham United for 40 million Euros. That transfer never materialized, but the saga isn’t over. Sporting President Bruno de Carvalho called West Ham’s owners, David Gold and David Sullivan, “dildo brothers”, for the reported legal action the two are taking against the Portuguese club because of the transfer.

“Where is it? Proof? Now, approaches, for sure. I’ve had them for almost the whole squad: West Ham supporters call Mr. David Sullivan and his brother ‘the Dildo Brothers’,” Bruno told the Portuguese paper Record. 

“These messengers, these offended virgins, the president of West Ham… We must tell the truth!”

Naturally, this whole mess started after David Sullivan’s said on Twitter (of course), that the club was opening up legal proceedings.

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Sporting official Nuno Saravia essentially challenged Sullivan and the club to produce the evidence they have that a written offer was submitted for Carvalho, which reportedly was two weeks before the end of the transfer window.

“No proposal arrived for the player William Carvalho. Mr Sullivan has a duty to prove what he says. For this reason, Sporting Clube de Portugal challenge him to publicly show the proposals he says have been made, as well as the evidence that Sporting CP has received them.”

Back when this was still a “normal” transfer saga, Sullivan said this about the transfer,

“It is no secret that we made a club record bid for Sporting Lisbon’s William Carvalho but unfortunately that offer was rejected a couple of weeks ago.

“Late last night Sporting Lisbon made contact to accept the original offer, but unfortunately it was just too late in the day, and we simply did not have enough time to put the player through a medical.

“We were not prepared, as a club, to buy a player for that amount of money without him having gone through adequate medical checks.”