The Felgueiras Gazette
Squad1 Feb 2027
The knee: Sergio Machado out for 22 days
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Felgueiras lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market1 Feb 2027
Juliano hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Felgueiras can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2027
Armando Lopes has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Felgueiras they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Rodolfo says Felgueiras 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Issa Doumbia was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Window shuts: 7 in, 0 out at Felgueiras
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The paperwork begins on Miguel Oliveira
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Felgueiras have done the hard part with Penafiel, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Silas Andersen 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 Felgueiras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Felgueiras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Issa Doumbia 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets KV Kortrijk tell Felgueiras: Patrik Gunnarsson is not for sale
- The dugout Elton gets it from the manager
- The dugout Silas Andersen is still paying for one afternoon at Felgueiras