João Afonso

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Benfica B
17 Sep 2028
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Marked for João Afonso

100 Edition

The Benfica B Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market26 Jun 2028

Santa Clara come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Benfica B did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Olívio Tomé: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Benfica B have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match26 Jun 2028

Benfica B are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 58 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Tiago Gouveia 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 Benfica B this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Gonçalo Moreira 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.

Market26 Jun 2028

The Olívio Tomé conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Oliveirense will make the call about Olívio Tomé this week. Benfica B have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

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87 Edition

The Benfica B Gazette

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market27 Mar 2028

Gonçalo Oliveira is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Benfica B is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Luka Veličković: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Benfica B have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad27 Mar 2028

João Rego 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.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Benfica B

Ricardo Ribeiro 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.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Rui Silva signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rui Silva commits to Benfica B for another 5 years.

Match25 Mar 2028

Bruma rescues a point for Benfica B

It needed Bruma to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Tondela, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

Nobody could get near Bernardes

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

A day to forget for João Capucho

Marked 5.67, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

A day to forget for Nuno Félix

Marked 5.77, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

86 Edition

The Benfica B Gazette

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Benfica B

Eduardo Fernandes 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.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Rodrigo Rêgo 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.

Match18 Mar 2028

Benfica B and Penafiel take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad20 Mar 2028

No place for Rodrigo Rêgo on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Benfica B pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Martim Ferreira 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.

Player ratings20 Mar 2028

João Afonso runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief