Belenenses president, Patrick Morais de Carvalho has hit out at reports that Chelsea are in talks over a potential purchase of Portuguese club, Sporting Lisbon, describing it as an ‘offensive’ move.

Since their arrival at Stamford Bridge, Todd Boehly’s Clearlake Capital have been looking to expand their portfolio of football teams by adding more clubs to it. Their intention has already been brought to life by their purchase of a majority stake in French club, Strasbourg in the summer, and they are keen to continue the trend by doing the same with Sporting.

However, Morais de Carvalho is not on-board with the move, as he believes it automatically makes the bought-over club nothing, but a feeder club to their owner.

“We have to define the financing model we want for Belenenses for the coming years. There are some models that are in fashion that do not interest us,” he said during a meeting on Wednesday.

“One of those is the multi-ownership of clubs, as happens with Red Bull and the City Group.

“The second known financing model disgusts me and Belenenses even more and has to do with a trend of clubs buying other clubs.

“For example, in Portugal there has been news that Chelsea want to buy Sporting.

“I think it is a plan and an intention that offends Portugal. In this case it also offends Sporting fans and fans of Portuguese football in general.

“This is not the future. For us it is unthinkable that Belenenses would ever be acquired by another club. Belenenses is not willing to be the ‘B team’ of any European or world club.”