Max Scholze

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15 Mar 2027
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27 Edition

The Estrela da Amadora Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Estrela da Amadora has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market

Luan Patrick 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 Estrela da Amadora can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Jota keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Estrela da Amadora may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Issiar Dramé is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Estrela da Amadora is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

No end in sight to Estrela da Amadora's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Estrela da Amadora has to find a result from somewhere.

Boardroom

Issiar Dramé has agreed to leave Estrela da Amadora for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at Estrela da Amadora

Abraham Marcus 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.

Match

Estrela da Amadora cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Words at Estrela da Amadora training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luan Patrick 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.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Estrela da Amadora Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Estrela da Amadora has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lovro Zvonarek

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

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Estrela da Amadora

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Estrela da Amadora is running low.

Market

Luan Patrick 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 Estrela da Amadora can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Porto watching Luan Patrick

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Estrela da Amadora have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Tempers go at Estrela da Amadora

Bernardo Schappo 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

Words at Estrela da Amadora training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abraham Marcus 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.

Match

Estrela da Amadora find a way past Nacional

Nacional made Estrela da Amadora work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Abraham Marcus

Marked 8.20 — 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.

In brief

18 Edition

The Estrela da Amadora Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

11 matches without a win for Estrela da Amadora

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Estrela da Amadora are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Lovro Zvonarek runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Francisco Meixedo says Estrela da Amadora 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

Renan Ribeiro 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 Estrela da Amadora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Luan Patrick 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

Estrela da Amadora cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

In brief