The Moreirense Sentinel
Market24 Aug 2026
Dinis Pinto 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 Moreirense can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Schettine out for 14 days
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Schettine, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market24 Aug 2026
Moreirense sell Afonso Assis for $1.6M
Afonso Assis has left for Caldas in a $1.6M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Samuel Soares turns down Moreirense
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Benfica keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Moreirense
Schettine 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Tiago Leite
Moreirense asked and Felgueiras 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
André Ferreira 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Kiko Bondoso
7.90, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Moreirense had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yan Maranhão 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.
In brief
- Match Moreirense and Estoril Praia take a point apiece
- The dugout Nuno Correia: “We have to be better”
- The dugout The form table has caught Tiago Andrade