Andrea Carbone

Central Midfielder - Portimonense
6 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Andrea Carbone

94 Edition

The Portimonense Courier

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Jarleysom frozen out at Portimonense

This is not rotation. Jarleysom has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Portimonense is pretending otherwise.

Squad

A falling-out at Portimonense

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

Squad

Alfred Caicedo 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 Portimonense know it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jarleysom

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

Squad

Lucas De Bolle 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.

The dugout

Carlinhos asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Kim Taewon has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Portimonense will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Andrea Carbone is a square peg at Portimonense

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

The Sébastien Cibois talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Portimonense know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

Back issues
93 Edition

The Portimonense Courier

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Mésaque Djú says Portimonense 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.

The dugout

Carlinhos frozen out at Portimonense

This is not rotation. Carlinhos has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Portimonense is pretending otherwise.

Squad

João Reis stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” João Reis and Portimonense agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Portimonense

Dânio Djassi 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Mo Dauda

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Portimonense told Mo Dauda something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Words at Portimonense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas De Bolle 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.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Mo Dauda

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mo Dauda has come out of that comparison in the side, and Portimonense have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Welinton Júnior

“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.

Market

The Dânio Djassi question follows Portimonense around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Dânio Djassi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief