Tomás Frank

Attacking Midfielder (C) - São João de Ver
11 Jul 2028
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Marked for Tomás Frank

97 Edition

The São João de Ver Herald

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Jun 2028

The knee: Nuno Pereira out for 69 days

69 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. São João de Ver lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market5 Jun 2028

Danny is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at São João de Ver is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market5 Jun 2028

Gustavo Almeida 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 São João de Ver can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

Roméo Beney is a medical away from São João de Ver

The deal with Famalicao 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.

Boardroom5 Jun 2028

Danny signs for Leiria while still at São João de Ver

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Danny has agreed terms with Leiria for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad5 Jun 2028

A move Makarona would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Makarona is living that version at São João de Ver, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Words at São João de Ver training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ronald 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.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

Arouca tell São João de Ver: Lucas Duarte 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.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Tomás Frank 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 São João de Ver know it.

In brief

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79 Edition

The São João de Ver Herald

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout31 Jan 2028

Gustavo Almeida: 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.” São João de Ver have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Words exchanged at São João de Ver

Julián Pérez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Words at São João de Ver training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ronald 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.

Transfer targets31 Jan 2028

São João de Ver rebuffed over Jakob Odehnal

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Arouca have kept their man, and São João de Ver go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Home is on Tomás Frank's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; São João de Ver are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout31 Jan 2028

The manager makes an example of Juan Ignacio Pereira

“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.

Market31 Jan 2028

António Gonçalves is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at São João de Ver has been clear about where António Gonçalves stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad31 Jan 2028

“I want to play”: Juan Ignacio Pereira speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Market31 Jan 2028

Still no signature from João Oliveira

7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what São João de Ver could get for him.

In brief

71 Edition

The São João de Ver Herald

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad6 Dec 2027

A falling-out at São João de Ver

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

Squad6 Dec 2027

Words at São João de Ver training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ronald 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.

Match4 Dec 2027

São João de Ver come up short against Varzim

Varzim left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad6 Dec 2027

100 appearances for João Oliveira

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Market6 Dec 2027

Still no ink between São João de Ver and João Oliveira

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at São João de Ver, another week without a signature from João Oliveira.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Tomás Frank wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at São João de Ver can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Nuno Machado left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

Tomás Frank gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Looking ahead6 Dec 2027

João Oliveira faces his old club

Sporting CP B next, and one man in the São João de Ver dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

52 Edition

The São João de Ver Herald

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market26 Jul 2027

Joel Monteiro asks to leave São João de Ver

“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.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

Giannis Michailidis turns down São João de Ver

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: PAOK keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad26 Jul 2027

A row about effort at São João de Ver

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

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

Door shut on Khayon Edwards

São João de Ver asked and Estoril Praia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at São João de Ver

Rafael Vilela and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Home is on Tomás Frank's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; São João de Ver are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Too much change too quickly at São João de Ver

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

São João de Ver try to borrow Victor Andersson

Vitoria Guimaraes have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

A loan move for Brian Mansilla is in the works

São João de Ver have made the call to Arouca. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

43 Edition

The São João de Ver Herald

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 May 2027

Carlos Rosel breaks a bone — 34 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match24 May 2027

São João de Ver refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 28 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad24 May 2027

The season belongs to Ronald

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and São João de Ver have had the benefit of it.

Squad24 May 2027

Leon-Oumar Wechsel 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 São João de Ver this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 May 2027

Tomás Frank gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tomás Frank has just signed for São João de Ver, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout24 May 2027

No hiding place for Tiago Campas

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

In brief