João Vitor

Central Defender - Van
22 Feb 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for João Vitor

82 Edition

The Van Post

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Keisuke Sakaiya 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 Van can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Van

Suéliton 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

Can Bartu Çığır 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 Van know it.

In brief

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75 Edition

The Van Post

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Van put Arman Khachatryan on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Kevin Díaz 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 Van can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Pyunik come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Van did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Ararat join the queue for Kevin Díaz

Add another name to the list: Ararat have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kevin Díaz. The answer from Van has not changed — yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Van

Suéliton 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.

Market

No place for Jakob Larsen in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jakob Larsen has his answer from Van; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

28 Edition

The Van Post

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Van

Suéliton 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

David Drocco signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Drocco commits to Van for another 1 years.

Market

Van sign Yegor Baranov, one for the future

Yegor Baranov is 20, and Van have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

No hiding place for David Drocco

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

Squad

A season on the outside for Benito Yllaconza

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Van has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

Market

Van pick up João Vitor for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. João Vitor arrives at Van with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief