The Fafe Gazette
Squad6 Sep 2027
Da Silva damages knee ligaments — 56 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 56 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
Mateo Flores says Fafe went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 18 in, 6 out at Fafe
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Nacho Monsalve signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nacho Monsalve and Fafe agree another 2 years.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Fafe
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateus Santos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Bautista Fernández
“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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Fafe and Miguel Lopes are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Charlie Osborne wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Fafe can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market6 Sep 2027
Willians told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Willians has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Fafe.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Luizão's mistake
- Looking ahead Fafe take on the side everybody is chasing
- Looking ahead A reunion for Francisco Cardoso