Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Amora will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Gerônimo 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Nuno Macedo 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.
“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.
The dugout2 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Luis Machado to a room that had heard them before.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Amora, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
Looking aheadAmora take on the side everybody is chasing
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Amora will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
1 for Diogo Pereira, marked 7.81, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
A 1‑0 win over União de Santarém, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Position 5, 11 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Luis Machado could afford to be generous.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Amora will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Diogo Pereira 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.
1º Dezembro left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Oct 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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Luis Machado to a room that had heard them before.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Pedro Sanca 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Gil Martins
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Gil Martins has come out of that comparison in the side, and Amora have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
8 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
Chances created: 7. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Amora will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Gil Martins 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonçalo Pinto 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.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Amora will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonçalo Pinto 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.
At 20 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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Amora will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
$380.0K was the most the club would pay and Arouca 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Amora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fernando Pereira 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jorge Sousa 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.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Goncalo Cunha is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Henrique Araujo 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.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Amora will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Amora offered $2.8M; Estrela da Amadora 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Amora close the window on a squad of their own making
28 in and 26 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.8M — a club that wants Ni Rodrigues enough to be asked twice.
Gerônimo 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonçalo Pinto 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.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Amora will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Amora will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
$98.0K on the table at Gil Vicente. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Amora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Amora are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Amora, another week without a signature from Gonçalo Pinto.