The Sporting CP B Sentinel
Market31 Aug 2026
Sporting CP B say no — this time
The offer from AVS for Manuel Mendonça was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Mauro Couto
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lucas Dias: 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.” Sporting CP B have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mauro Couto 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Sporting CP B
David Moreira 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Sporting CP B come up short against Leiria
Leiria left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market31 Aug 2026
The José Mendes conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Torreense will make the call about José Mendes this week. Sporting CP B have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mauro Couto dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Off the bench and decisive: Paulo Iago
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Sporting CP B were going nowhere until he came on.
In brief
- Market The Miguel Gouveia story refuses to die
- Player ratings Délcio Aurélio ran the game