Mateus

Goalkeeper - Gil Vicente
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Marked for Mateus

61 Edition

The Gil Vicente Gazette

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad27 Sep 2027

14 saves: Samuel Portugal was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 14 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Ricardo Esgaio damages knee ligaments — 86 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 86 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market27 Sep 2027

Zé Carlos hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gil Vicente can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Mateus: 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.” Gil Vicente have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Gil Vicente

Héctor Hernández 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.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Words at Gil Vicente training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zé Carlos 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.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Ninety minutes of Carlos Eduardo at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Gil Vicente.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

The manager makes an example of Ronaldo

“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.

Match25 Sep 2027

Gil Vicente share the spoils with Sporting CP

A 2‑2 draw with Sporting CP leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
50 Edition

The Alverca Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad12 Jul 2027

Raúl Silva damages knee ligaments — 171 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 171 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market12 Jul 2027

Alverca turn down Vizela for Chiquinho

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

The dugout12 Jul 2027

José Julián Martínez: 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.” Alverca have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market12 Jul 2027

André Paulo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Alverca can pretend not to have heard.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Samy Merheg is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.16 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Alverca know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Transfer targets12 Jul 2027

No thanks: André Henrique rejects the move

Alverca had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Corinthians, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Market12 Jul 2027

Alverca sell Mateus for $1.3M

Mateus has left for Gil Vicente in a $1.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Alverca

Zé Rafael 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.

Transfer targets12 Jul 2027

Felgueiras tell Alverca: Tiago Leite 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.

In brief

50 Edition

The Gil Vicente Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market12 Jul 2027

Carlos Eduardo 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 Gil Vicente, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market12 Jul 2027

Gil Vicente get their man

The chase for Mateus ended with $1.3M changing hands and Alverca out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Transfer targets12 Jul 2027

Geoffrey Kondogbia is a medical away from Gil Vicente

The deal with Olympique de Marseille is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Gil Vicente

Fotis Ioannidis 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.

Transfer targets12 Jul 2027

Gil Vicente rebuffed over Alexander Bah

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Benfica have kept their man, and Gil Vicente go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Patric 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.

Squad12 Jul 2027

João Castro stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” João Castro and Gil Vicente agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout12 Jul 2027

Santi García has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Gil Vicente will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market12 Jul 2027

The Santi García talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gil Vicente know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

9 Edition

The Alverca Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Sep 2026

56 days out for Dawda Camara after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Alverca will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market28 Sep 2026

Lincoln asks to leave Alverca

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Both of them Figueiredo's — 8.94

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.94, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match26 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Alverca's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Alverca has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Matheus Mendes stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Alverca

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

Match26 Sep 2026

Whatever happens, Alverca do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Samy Merheg runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match26 Sep 2026

Alverca and Casa Pia take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

  • The dugout No hiding place for José Julián Martínez
  • Squad Words at Alverca training over how hard people work
  • The dugout The view from the dugout