Anílson

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6 Aug 2028
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Process

Marked for Anílson

78 Edition

The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Miguel Falé puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Pacos de Ferreira, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Pacos de Ferreira turn down Maritimo for Miguel Falé

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Diegão says Pacos de Ferreira 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Pacos de Ferreira

Rodrigo Mora 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.

Squad

Ibrahima Ba 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.

Match

Pacos de Ferreira see off Oliveirense

Three points for Pacos de Ferreira, 1‑0 the final word against Oliveirense in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Rafael Barbosa

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Felgueiras expected to open talks for Iuri Moreira

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Pacos de Ferreira will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Diego Fernandes

A mark of 7.85, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

Back issues
41 Edition

The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Zé Vitor 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 Pacos de Ferreira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ibrahima Ba 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.

Boardroom

Pacos de Ferreira still without a manager

9 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

In brief

  • Squad Questions about Anílson on the training pitch
  • Squad The manager plants his flag on Zé Vitor
32 Edition

The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The interim tag comes off Rodrigo Cunha

Pacos de Ferreira interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Rodrigo Cunha keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

Squad

Iuri Moreira: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pacos de Ferreira have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Freddie Woodman signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Freddie Woodman and Pacos de Ferreira agree another 3 years.

Squad

Zé Vitor 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 Pacos de Ferreira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ibrahima Ba 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Zé Vitor

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

8 Edition

The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Freddie Woodman

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pacos de Ferreira lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Gonçalo Cardoso 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 Pacos de Ferreira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ibrahima Ba 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.

In brief