Marked for Simão Silva
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market8 Feb 2027
The bid was some way short and Académico de Viseu did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.29 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Académico de Viseu know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Anthony Correia pops up at the right end — 7.99
7.99, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Al Ahly keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Académico de Viseu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Bouldini 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paulo Cunha has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Simão 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.
In brief
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Player ratings
Nobody on the pitch touched André Clovis
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Squad
André Clovis makes the team of the month
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market1 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Académico de Viseu have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Académico de Viseu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Bouldini 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mohammed Bouldini. 3‑1 against Oliveirense, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
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.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I watch every Académico de Viseu game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Académica runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
One of those days for Robinho
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Mohammed Bouldini was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Simão Silva 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 Académico de Viseu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Squad14 Dec 2026
He is 18, he is averaging 7.21, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 8.12 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Chamito: 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.” Académico de Viseu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Académico de Viseu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oskar Pietuszewski 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.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Lorougnon Gohi 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Cristian Ferreira. 2‑0 against Vizela, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Robinho 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
Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Simão 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.
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Triumph
Match24 Oct 2026
7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lorougnon Gohi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Mohammed Bouldini at his very best
Marked 8.56. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Académico de Viseu.
Squad26 Oct 2026
50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Matheus Sampaio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I watch every Académico de Viseu game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Trofense runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market26 Oct 2026
Nils Mortimer is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Académico de Viseu has been clear about where Nils Mortimer stands, which is more than many ever get.
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Robinho knocks on the manager’s door
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The dugout
Simão Silva gets picked when it counts
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match16 Sep 2026
A 5‑2 win over Trofense, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.29, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ricardinho, 20, steals the show — 8.49
Marked 8.49 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match19 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Académico de Viseu have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Robinho 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.
Match16 Sep 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Académico de Viseu and Trofense in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kauã Vinícius is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.01 on 14 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Oskar Pietuszewski 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
André Clovis 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 Académico de Viseu can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Leixões come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Académico de Viseu did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Académico de Viseu had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at La Equidad, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Académico de Viseu asked and Paredes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match29 Aug 2026
Porto B left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Soriano, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Simão Silva 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.10 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.78 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Académico de Viseu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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 terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Oskar Pietuszewski 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Rodrigo Guedes has come up in conversations Académico de Viseu were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.