Replacing Txiki Begiristain, the lieutenant of Pep Guardiola for 12 years and a close -knit personal friend, is a formidable task in itself.
But when the new job means that you supervise the mass revision of a club that has been dominating for almost ten years?
That is really enough to make the knees beat.
But when Viana will officially start working in June, it will be the new football director of the city – as much as Guardioia – who is responsible for reforming the future.
Almost half of the side that won a record-breaking four premitons on the Stuiter-But has never been on hunting for a fifth-nadert their sale date.
After a Champions League training from Real Madrid saw them missing the last 16 for the first time in 12 years, even manager Guardiola admitted that this was the end of an era.
Kyle Walker has disappeared; Ilkay Gundogan seems to be in his last season, and there are big doubts about Kevin De Bruyne, Edelson, John Stones and Bernardo Silva. Urgent and large surgery is needed.
Some doubt whether Guardiola himself will linger for the remaining two years of his contract.
Viana, one of the most elegant midfielders in Europe as a player, is confronted with a mission that intimidates so many people would pop before checking in.
But not the new Supremo from Sporting. He knows what it's like to walk into a club in real disorder.
Two months before Viana went to the Lisbon outfit in August 2018, fans stormed the training field after they missed the Champions League and players and staff attacks.
Seven stars – including four of the Portugal World Cup – ended their contracts, although Bruno Fernandes remained later. It was a club in chaos.
But Viana's Eye for Talent and Midas Touch in the Transfer Market brought a domestic cup double in his first season and the first title in 19 years the next.
There was also a ruthless side, who came through three managers in 15 months before he took a point on a non -tested Rookie from Braga in Ruben Amorim.
The second of these was Jorge Manuel Rebelo Fernandes, known by Wolves Fans as Silas, who appeared only 14 performances in three gloomy years in Molineux.
Although he was taught to Amorim after six months, he still thinks that his old Portugal friend from their playing days will have no trouble handling the heat in the city.
Silas, now the boss of Uniao Leiria, insisted: “You have to realize that Hugo started exercising with almost no experience as a sports director when it needed a total reconstruction.
“There was an internal rebellion, fans were violent and important men such as William Carvalho, Rafael Leao and Rui Patricio – the backbone of the team – left, many free.
“It was a huge economic loss for spores and a few months later Hugo asked me to help – and you can't say a 'no' to a friend.
“Unfortunately I arrived in the midst of a crisis, but at those difficult moments, with all these problems, Hugo did a fantastic work.
“I worked with him for six months, but saw his ability to breathe new life into a club that was free when others were to thrown or collapsed in the towel.
“But Hugo was always so calm, never got angry and the results in his term of office spoke for himself. There is no doubt that he was the cornerstone of the revival.
“Sports was an intensive course for him where he learned to solve problems in a high -pressure environment.”
Viana's striking success is his ability to rebuild a team, and when Amorim arrived, he did this almost all over again. City was certainly impressed.
Silas added: “Hugo brought people like Pedro Porro, Joao Palhinha and Morten Hjulmand and earned millions from the sale of Bruno Fernandes, Manuel Ugarte, Matheus Nunes and others.
“It is not surprising that City did not hesitate to sign it.
“In Pep they have the best coach in the world and I am sure they will work two well together.
“They made the perfect choice.”
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