Hamilton

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Santa Clara
27 Feb 2027
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Marked for Hamilton

28 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

Emre Ünüvar turns down Santa Clara

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Ajax keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad8 Feb 2027

A row about effort at Santa Clara

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vinícius Lopes was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

Como tell Santa Clara: Marc Oliver Kempf is not for sale

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.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Hamilton 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 Santa Clara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match6 Feb 2027

Santa Clara come up short against Sporting CP

Sporting CP left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Nuno Neves faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Nuno Neves after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

No place for Ivan Zlobin on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Santa Clara pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Henrique Silva named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Henrique Silva is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Luis Fernando

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

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Vinícius Lopes

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match9 Jan 2027

The wait goes on for Santa Clara

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Rildo 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 Santa Clara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad11 Jan 2027

João Cardoso is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Lazar Carević 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.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Altach tell Santa Clara: Ivan Božić is not for sale

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.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Hamilton

“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.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Santa Clara ask about Andrin Hunziker

A loan enquiry to St. Gallen: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

Gonçalo Paciência dropped after a run of poor form

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.

In brief

22 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Vinícius Lopes runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match26 Dec 2026

4 matches without a win for Santa Clara

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Santa Clara are no longer polite ones.

Match26 Dec 2026

4 matches without a goal for Santa Clara

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Vinícius Lopes 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Welinton Torrão 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 Santa Clara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch28 Dec 2026

Seydou Fofana counts the days

“I watch every Santa Clara game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at AVS runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Daniel Borges shuts the door

Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Rildo knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Santa Clara, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Nuno Neves: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief