Andrey

Defensive Midfielder - Santa Clara
26 Nov 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Andrey

63 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Brenner

Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The knee: Gabriel Salguero out for 35 days

35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Santa Clara lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

The drought breaks for Santa Clara

12 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Gil Vicente were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Player ratings

Both of them Henrique Pereira's — 8.51

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.51, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Only the photograph left for Evertow

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Evertow will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Santa Clara the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Andrey signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrey and Santa Clara agree another 3 years.

Squad

Pedro Pacheco 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.

Squad

Edney 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.

Match

Santa Clara get the job done against Gil Vicente

A 2‑1 win over Gil Vicente, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

Back issues
43 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ryan Pablo damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.

Market

Afonso Duarte 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 Santa Clara can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Real improvement from Gabriel Salguero at Santa Clara

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gabriel Salguero is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A row about effort at Santa Clara

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

Squad

Tempers go at Santa Clara

David Grilo 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Henrique Silva

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

The dugout

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.

Market

MT linked with a move away

The name of MT keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Santa Clara say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

The shop window has Jader in it

Santa Clara have let the market know Jader can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

  • Match Nothing left to play for but pride at Santa Clara
  • Loan watch The clock runs down on Andrey at AVS