The Sporting CP Herald
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$17.1M settles it between the clubs for José Paradela
Cruz Azul have accepted the money. What Sporting CP do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Geny runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
Maximiliano Araújo moves on
Feyenoord pay $33.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Marvin Keller due for a Sporting CP medical
Everything agreed with Young Boys, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Gabriel Silva, 19, steals the show — 8.03
Marked 8.03 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Oumar Camara
Sporting CP asked and Vitoria Guimaraes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
Gonçalo Inácio attracts admirers
The name of Gonçalo Inácio has come up in conversations Sporting CP were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Sporting CP
Rui Silva 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sergi Altimira signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergi Altimira commits to Sporting CP for another 4 years.
In brief
- The terraces Sporting CP supporters have found a favourite in Rafael Nel
- Match Sporting CP see off Casa Pia
- Boardroom Sporting CP sign off a bigger ground