Alexandre Sousa

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
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The Rio Ave Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout9 Aug 2027

Andreas Ndoj says Rio Ave went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market9 Aug 2027

João Graça hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rio Ave can pretend not to have heard.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Marios Vrousai 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 Rio Ave this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Samuel Alves at Rio Ave

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Samuel Alves is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad9 Aug 2027

A late step up for Jalen Blesa

At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad9 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Rio Ave

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

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

Bologna tell Rio Ave: Federico Bernardeschi 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.

Market9 Aug 2027

Diogo Bezerra has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Rio Ave can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

Lucas Fernandes 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 Rio Ave, and both men came out saying it was fine.

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The Rio Ave Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match12 Dec 2026

The wait goes on for Rio Ave

12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad14 Dec 2026

91 days out for Jalen Blesa after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Rio Ave will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Simón García keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Rio Ave may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Rio Ave

Marios Vrousai 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.

Squad14 Dec 2026

A row about effort at Rio Ave

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

Squad14 Dec 2026

Rio Ave count the cost of losing Alexandre Sousa

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

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Gustavo 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 ratings14 Dec 2026

Tamble Monteiro runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Marios Vrousai takes the honours

Marked 7.27 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Rio Ave had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

  • The dugout Jalen Blesa asks for a word with the manager
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Match No goals between Rio Ave and Tondela