The Sporting CP B Sentinel
Market11 Jun 2029
Sporting CP B turn down Lusitânia Lourosa for Eduardo Felicíssimo
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market11 Jun 2029
Rodrigo Rodrigues 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 The request is on a desk at Sporting CP B, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout11 Jun 2029
José Lino says Sporting CP B 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Sporting CP B
Salvador Blopá 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Rafael Camacho stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rafael Camacho and Sporting CP B agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market11 Jun 2029
Only the photograph left for Sandro Gambôa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sandro Gambôa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sporting CP B the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market11 Jun 2029
Biel wants more than Sporting CP B are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Words at Sporting CP B training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Koba Koindredi 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 dugout11 Jun 2029
The manager makes an example of David Moreira
“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.
In brief
- Squad Eduardo Felicíssimo: “I am not a substitute”
- The dugout Salvador Blopá knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Konstantin Nikitenko