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38 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Santa Clara

Sidney Lima 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.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Words at Santa Clara training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simon Walde 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.

Squad19 Apr 2027

When it matters, Djé plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

  • Squad Djé asks for a word with the manager
  • Market The Andrey talk will not go away
Back issues
35 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match27 Mar 2027

The wait goes on for Santa Clara

10 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.

Market29 Mar 2027

Sidney Lima has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Santa Clara they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Real improvement from Luis Fernando at Santa Clara

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

Player ratings29 Mar 2027

Djé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match27 Mar 2027

A bad afternoon for Santa Clara against Benfica

0‑1 to Benfica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad29 Mar 2027

No hiding place for MT

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

Squad29 Mar 2027

Vinícius Lopes is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.23 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Simon Walde 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.

The terraces29 Mar 2027

Everybody has an opinion about MT

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

33 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match13 Mar 2027

No end in sight to Santa Clara's wait for a win

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

Squad15 Mar 2027

Remember the name: Henrique Silva

He is 21, he is averaging 7.00, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Sidney Lima 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 ratings15 Mar 2027

A masterclass from Vinícius Lopes

Marked 8.48 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Simon Walde 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 Santa Clara know it.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Simon Walde 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.

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

A costly moment from Djé

One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Santa Clara, and it is a cruel one.

Match13 Mar 2027

Santa Clara share the spoils with Rio Ave

A 1‑1 draw with Rio Ave leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

Nobody could get near Luis Fernando

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

27 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad1 Feb 2027

David Pereira breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market1 Feb 2027

Brenner wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Sidney Lima 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.

Match30 Jan 2027

Gil Vicente take the points off Santa Clara

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Simon Walde 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.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

Brenner runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad1 Feb 2027

The manager makes an example of Djé

“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.

Market1 Feb 2027

Still no ink between Santa Clara and Sidney Lima

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Santa Clara, another week without a signature from Sidney Lima.

Loan watch1 Feb 2027

Seydou Fofana counts the days

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

In brief

25 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match13 Jan 2027

The small margins put Santa Clara out

Out, 0‑1 to Benfica, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Luis Fernando runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A fracture rules David Pereira out for 39 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Santa Clara will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Nothing got past Henrique Silva

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 27 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Simon Walde gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Simon Walde has just signed for Santa Clara, and for once the answer mattered.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Nothing got past Andrey

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

MT was immovable

24 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Gabriel Batista 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Remember the name: Henrique Silva

He is 21, he is averaging 7.00, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

In brief

16 Edition

The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Nov 2026

A one-man rearguard from Moritz Nicolas

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Philipp Sander shuts the door

Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Nothing got past Kevin Stöger

24 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Franck Honorat 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 Borussia Mönchengladbach this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Franck Honorat runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Shuto Machino was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.31. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match14 Nov 2026

Borussia Mönchengladbach see off Werder Bremen

Three points for Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1‑0 the final word against Werder Bremen in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Borussia Mönchengladbach training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shuto Machino 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Nico Elvedi wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

In brief