The Leixões Chronicle
Match16 Jan 2027
14 matches without a win for Leixões
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Leixões are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Hugo Cabral out for 71 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leixões will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market18 Jan 2027
Rúben Pina is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leixões is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market18 Jan 2027
Leixões say no — this time
The offer from Felgueiras for Igor Stefanović was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Andreas Ndoj is a medical away from Leixões
The deal with Rio Ave is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Leixões
Caio Secco 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Italo arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Italo has, at Leixões, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Leixões rebuffed over João Resende
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Farense have kept their man, and Leixões go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Fabio Simoes 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
- Player ratings Cláudio Araújo was unplayable
- Transfer targets A loan move for Adrian Bajrami is in the works
- Transfer targets Leixões try to borrow Matija Mitrović