The Farense Chronicle
Match6 Feb 2027
Chaves end the Farense run at 25
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 25 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Match3 Feb 2027
Farense out of the cup
Braga ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Matt Grimes turns down Farense
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Coventry City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Farense
Caleb Ekuban 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Mohamed Silmi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Farense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Farense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miguel Baeza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Birmingham tell Farense: Paik Seung-Ho 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Fabijan Buntić
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabijan Buntić, and the manager let it.
Match6 Feb 2027
Farense come up short against Chaves
Chaves left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- Player ratings The kick that got away from Shyon Omrani
- The dugout Marco Matias is still paying for one afternoon at Farense
- The dugout Simao Castro faces the questions