Italo

Goalkeeper - Leixões
13 Jun 2027
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Marked for Italo

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The Leixões Chronicle

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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

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The America Mineiro Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at America Mineiro

Gonzalo Mastriani 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Jair 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.

Boardroom4 Jan 2027

America Mineiro beat the market to Bernardo Valim from Botafogo

Botafogo will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Bernardo Valim has pre-agreed a move to America Mineiro, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Boca Juniors tell America Mineiro: Leandro Brey is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Matheus Aluísio stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Matheus Aluísio and America Mineiro agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Nathan is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Nathan has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Ricardo Silva has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ricardo Silva has written the date down.

Market4 Jan 2027

Still no ink between America Mineiro and Thauan

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at America Mineiro, another week without a signature from Thauan.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Gabriel Barros knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gabriel Barros trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief