The Mafra Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Mafra
Ença Fati 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Trofense join the queue for Lucas Gabriel
Add another name to the list: Trofense have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lucas Gabriel. The answer from Mafra has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Braima Sambú signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Braima Sambú commits to Mafra for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Stanley Iheanacho wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Mafra know it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Mafra and Ença Fati
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Jota is in the works
Mafra have made the call to Nacional. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Mafra try to borrow Miguel Salgado
Estoril Praia have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Mafra try to borrow Pedrinho
Goiás have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Mafra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djé Béni is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- The dugout Ença Fati asks for a word with the manager
- Market Marculino Ninte leaves for nothing
- Market Rodrigo Freitas leaves for nothing