Alex Moretti

Defensive Midfielder - Penafiel
1 Aug 2028
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98 Edition

The Penafiel Post

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Jun 2028

Alex Moretti arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Alex Moretti has, at Penafiel, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market12 Jun 2028

Asante Kotoko come back empty-handed

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

Squad12 Jun 2028

Words exchanged at Penafiel

Rúben Alves 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.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

Door shut on Jovan Milošević

Penafiel asked and Braga said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout12 Jun 2028

Pedro Lima 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.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Pedro Sá 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.

Market12 Jun 2028

The João Paulo conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Moreirense will make the call about João Paulo this week. Penafiel have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

Penafiel try to borrow Bartłomiej Wdowik

Braga 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.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Igor Pato is a square peg at Penafiel

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

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52 Edition

The Moreirense Sentinel

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Jul 2027

A fracture rules Nile John out for 124 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Moreirense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market26 Jul 2027

Gilberto Batista asks to leave Moreirense

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at Moreirense

Kiko Bondoso 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.

Squad26 Jul 2027

A row about effort at Moreirense

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maracás was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

Benfica tell Moreirense: Dinis Pinto 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.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Moreirense count the cost of losing Alex Moretti

47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

A loan move for Carlos Eduardo is in the works

Moreirense have made the call to Gil Vicente. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

No hiding place for Leandro Santos

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leandro Santos, and the manager let it.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

Nile John knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Moreirense, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

24 Edition

The Moreirense Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad11 Jan 2027

André Ferreira keeps Moreirense in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market11 Jan 2027

Moreirense turn down Pacos de Ferreira for Rodrigo Alonso

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market11 Jan 2027

Business is business: Dinis Pinto goes

Benfica paid $2.5M and Moreirense took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Moreirense

Kiko Bondoso 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

A row about effort at Moreirense

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maracás was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

River Plate tell Moreirense: Sebastián Driussi 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 terraces11 Jan 2027

Moreirense supporters have found a favourite in Manuel Mendonça

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Manuel Mendonça has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match9 Jan 2027

The drought breaks for Moreirense

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Benfica were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Kiko Bondoso

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief