The Rio Ave Post
Squad12 Apr 2027
Cezary Miszta keeps Rio Ave in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 15 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market12 Apr 2027
Dario Špikić 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 Rio Ave can pretend not to have heard.
Match10 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Rio Ave
6 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Rio Ave
Jordan Holsgrove 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A move Arthur Tchaptchet 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. Arthur Tchaptchet is living that version at Rio Ave, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Rio Ave training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marios Vrousai 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
André Clovis’s goal not enough for Rio Ave
André Clovis scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Benfica, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Match10 Apr 2027
Rio Ave leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Market12 Apr 2027
Tiago Gomes steps up from the Rio Ave academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tiago Gomes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Leonardo Ferreira steps up from the Rio Ave academy
- Market Rio Ave promote Bernardo Gomes from within
- The dugout Rio Ave keep their word to Cezary Miszta