Pericles

Defensive Midfielder - Leixões
18 Feb 2027
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Marked for Pericles

17 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Nov 2026

Rodrigo Martins breaks a bone — 34 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Leixões

Caio Secco 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.

Match21 Nov 2026

Leixões come up short against Pacos de Ferreira

Pacos de Ferreira left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Words at Leixões training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ítalo Melo 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

8 new faces, and Leixões 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.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Ricardo Pinto to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Morufdeen Moshood

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Morufdeen Moshood, and the manager let it.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Rúben Pina

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market23 Nov 2026

Gabriel Taliari linked with a move away

The name of Gabriel Taliari keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Leixões say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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12 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match17 Oct 2026

Cruel end for Porto B as Leixões pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Leixões scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Leixões

Gabriel Taliari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match17 Oct 2026

Rúben Pina sends Leixões past Porto B

It finished 3‑2, and it was Rúben Pina’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leixões.

The terraces19 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Bautista Farías

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match17 Oct 2026

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Leixões. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Gabriel Taliari at his very best

Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Leixões.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Ítalo Melo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Pericles signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pericles and Leixões agree another 3 years.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Rúben Pina runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

11 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Leixões

Gabriel Taliari 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.

Match10 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for Leixões against Farense

1‑2 to Farense, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Caio Secco gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Rodrigo Martins beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market12 Oct 2026

Leixões promote Hugo Simoes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hugo Simoes has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market12 Oct 2026

Leonardo Silva steps up from the Leixões academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Silva has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Leixões training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Bica 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Rafael Santos stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rafael Santos and Leixões agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Gabriel Taliari in the eights

A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief