The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle
Market31 Aug 2026
Vitoria Guimaraes say no — this time
The offer from Boavista for Gonçalo Nogueira 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A first appearance José Sacramento will want to forget — 5.45
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.45, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Market31 Aug 2026
Portimonense join the queue for Miguel Nogueira
Add another name to the list: Portimonense have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Miguel Nogueira. The answer from Vitoria Guimaraes has not changed — yet.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alioune Ndoye 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Vitoria Guimaraes come up short against Benfica
Benfica left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Beni Mukendi 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mohamed Kaba in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vitoria Guimaraes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Vitoria Guimaraes
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The chances came and went for Jalal Abdullai
8 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
In brief
- Market Alioune Ndoye linked with a move away
- Player ratings Gustavo Silva runs at them all day
- Player ratings A day to forget for Telmo Arcanjo