Marked for Ângelo Neto
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Vizela
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Lacava was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Both jobs done by Ângelo Neto — 6.80
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.80, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Vizela
Yassin Fortuné and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Luís Rocha
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Vizela
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Miguel Gomes after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ângelo Neto, 35, rolls back the years — 8.24
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.24 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Vizela right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vizela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Luis Mina is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Angel Bastunov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vizela.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Vizela
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Lacava was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksandar Busnić, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.35 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Rodrigo Ramos is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Vizela
David Moreira was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Vizela
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yann Kitala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Match16 Sep 2026
Vizela bow out of the cup
Mafra go through and Vizela go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market21 Sep 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Vizela can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Vizela
Ângelo Neto and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Vizela asked and Cruzeiro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of André Anderson
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Vizela training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yann Kitala 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.83 on the card, and the Vizela support went home talking about one name.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Steady
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Vizela sell a favourite for $3.1M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Antonio Gomis was one of the reasons people came, and $3.1M does not replace that by itself.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Vizela offered $2.9M; Alverca said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market24 Aug 2026
Antonio Gomis has left for Crvena Zvezda in a $3.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Warlen arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Warlen has, at Vizela, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sporting CP have kept their man, and Vizela go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ângelo Neto did the work nobody counts — 7.06
12 combined actions and 7.06. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Vizela training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Pierre Rhyner 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Vizela a point
Minute 91, against Chaves, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Vizela
Alfred Caicedo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Triumph
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Crvena Zvezda waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Vizela is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Porto wanted more than $6.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Vizela asked and Estoril Praia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Ângelo Neto delivers — 7.70
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Ângelo Neto scored, was marked 7.70, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $3.0M — a club that wants Bastien Meupiyou enough to be asked twice.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Vizela
Allan Sousa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Vizela, 3‑1 the final word against Benfica B in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Aleksandar Busnić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aleksandar Busnić commits to Vizela for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vizela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Vizela
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean-Pierre Rhyner was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and Vizela are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Rayo Vallecano: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Farense have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.