Paulinho arrived at Sporting in the January transfer window from Braga in exchange for € 16 million (70 percent of the pass), the amount that made him the most expensive signing in club history.
The 28-year-old striker, invited to the last episode of the Lion’s DNA program, summed up the results of the first months in the team of Ruben Amorim.
The first goal took a long time, scored only on April 5 in a match (1: 1) in Moreira de Conegos.
“Yes. I had an idea … This is a process. I sign and the next day after lunch we have a training session. I left training to think:” My God, what a lump I have, I can’t even feel my legs. ” said: “Today it was quiet. Quiet? I was losing consciousness! It was not just an adaptation to the team, it was a training, a demand. It was already hot with him in Braga,” recalls Paulinho.
About criticism: “There were games in which we did not win, and people have already said:” We agreed with this price … It does not match. ” I understand everything, the context is normal. 19 years have passed without victories, it touches people. But I know what kind of player I am, I know I’ll fit. It wasn’t even me who scored, the team understood it. “
The attacker is the first to realize that “he could have done more.”
“But there were a lot of things that… are ready, we are defeated champions. I’m not kidding when I say this. I traded all the goals for the title. I want to go down this path when I am a coach. I am not a fool and I have no speeches or excuses. I want to score in every game, and when I don’t score, I get upset. The end. I get upset at home. I already had games in which I scored and said that I did not play anything, in others I say that I played hard, ”he said.
