The Farense Chronicle
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 21 in, 24 out at Farense
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 21 arrived, 24 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market6 Sep 2027
Jonathan Pineda raises the bar for Farense
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Farense heard it as anything else.
Market6 Sep 2027
Jaílson wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Farense still without a manager
36 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Farense
Willian and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Wanyson is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Cláudio Falcão 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Nikola Gjorgjev’s goal not enough for Farense
Nikola Gjorgjev scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Leiria, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
Gonçalo Silva 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.
In brief
- Squad Farense are still strangers to each other
- The dugout David Conceicao faces the questions
- Market Farense sign Tauzy, one for the future