The Estrela da Amadora Post
The terraces21 Jun 2027
Anger at Estrela da Amadora spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
The interim tag comes off David Rodrigues
Estrela da Amadora interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: David Rodrigues keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.
Squad21 Jun 2027
38 days out for Leandro Antonetti after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Estrela da Amadora will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market21 Jun 2027
Terms done: Diogo Pinto is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Felgueiras waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Estrela da Amadora is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
A $4.8M sale, and a town that did not want it
Luan Patrick has gone, the accounts have $4.8M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market21 Jun 2027
Business is business: Luan Patrick goes
Pacos de Ferreira paid $4.8M and Estrela da Amadora took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market21 Jun 2027
Ivanildo Siga 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 Estrela da Amadora can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Jeremy Arévalo 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Abraham Marcus 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 Estrela da Amadora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Squad A late step up for Kevin Höög Jansson
- The dugout René Mitongo gets it from the manager
- The dugout A clean slate for Joan Jordán