The Maritimo Chronicle
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Maritimo walk away from Jordan Holsgrove
$6.2M was the most the club would pay and Estoril Praia were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Raphael Guzzo goes up and wins it — 7.84
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.84 for the rest of it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Leiria tell Maritimo: Eboué Kouassi is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Adrián Butzke in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maritimo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Maritimo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raphael Guzzo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match15 Aug 2026
Two points walk out of the ground
Level with 89 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Maritimo had all but put away. Portimonense will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Match15 Aug 2026
Raphael Guzzo rescues a point for Maritimo
It needed Raphael Guzzo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Portimonense, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Maritimo ask about Wallace Yan
A loan enquiry to Flamengo: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Maritimo ask about Ryan Francisco
A loan enquiry to Sport Recife: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- The dugout Lucas Reis: “We have to be better”
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Maritimo
- Player ratings Bryan Limbombe runs at them all day