The Porto Herald
Market3 Aug 2026
Tottenham come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Porto did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Rafinha would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Rafinha is living that version at Porto, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market3 Aug 2026
Jakub Kiwior wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Porto hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market3 Aug 2026
Pepê has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Porto can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jakub Kiwior stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jakub Kiwior and Porto agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Diogo Costa 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 Porto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
Eyes on Zaidu Sanusi again
The phone has started ringing about Zaidu Sanusi again, and this time the name on the line is Zorya. Porto are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Zaidu Sanusi wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Porto know it.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Gabri Veiga knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gabri Veiga trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Rafinha
- The dugout The manager comes out for Diogo Costa