Jefer Gunjo

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Process

Marked for Jefer Gunjo

58 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Leixões say no — this time

The offer from Maritimo for João Pinto was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Benjamin Kanurić 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 The request is on a desk at Leixões, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 22 in, 10 out at Leixões

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

So close: Jefer Gunjo’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Lusitânia Lourosa moved on, Jefer Gunjo reports back to Leixões, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

João Pinto 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 Leixões this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Leixões sell Tokinho Dória for $280.0K

Tokinho Dória has left for Tondela in a $280.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Boardroom

Leixões counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Leixões now.

Squad

Words at Leixões training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rafael Barbosa 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 targets

Door shut on Matija Mitrović

Leixões asked and Vitoria Guimaraes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

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  • Squad “I want to play”: Japa speaks
  • The dugout A promise honoured for Paulinho
Back issues
57 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Tokinho Dória has said yes to Tondela

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Leixões have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Werton 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 Leixões can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Rodrigo Alonso keeps the receipts

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

Match

4 matches without a win for Leixões

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Leixões are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Rodrigo Alonso 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 Leixões this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Leixões training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Werton 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 targets

Door shut on André Ribeiro

Leixões asked and Marco 09 said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Tokinho Dória 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Leixões against AVS

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

In brief

14 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Leixões out

Out, 3‑4 to Famalicao, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Ricardo Martins scores twice — 8.16

Two goals and a mark of 8.16 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

The wait goes on for Leixões

7 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.

Match

Ricardo Martins among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Ricardo Martins on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Leixões and Famalicao.

Squad

Words at Leixões training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rafael Barbosa 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Benjamin Kanurić

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Rúben Pina

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Jefer Gunjo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jefer Gunjo and Leixões agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Still no ink between Leixões and Miguel Sousa

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

In brief