Juan Lopes

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111 Edition

The Vitória Gazette

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market11 Sep 2028

Juan Lopes asks to leave Vitória

“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.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Juan Lopes says Vitória 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.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Vitória

Emmanuel Martínez 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 Sep 2028

Words at Vitória training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baralhas 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.

Boardroom11 Sep 2028

Vitória still without a manager

10 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Renato Kayser 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 ratings11 Sep 2028

One of those days for Matheuzinho

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.62, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match9 Sep 2028

Matheuzinho answers America Mineiro immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Matheuzinho had Vitória level again within 2 minutes, and America Mineiro never got to play with a lead at all.

Match9 Sep 2028

Vitória and America Mineiro take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

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The Ujpest Post

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market24 Jan 2028

Ferencvaros come back empty-handed

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

Market24 Jan 2028

Dzhuneyt Ali 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 Ujpest can pretend not to have heard.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Iuri Medeiros 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 Ujpest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Tiago Gonçalves 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.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Patrizio Stronati has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ujpest will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad24 Jan 2028

No hiding place for Attila Fiola

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

In brief

60 Edition

The Ujpest Post

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad20 Sep 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Arijan Ademi

113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ujpest lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad20 Sep 2027

João Nunes breaks a bone — 29 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings20 Sep 2027

Both of them Pavel Svatek's — 7.70

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.70, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match18 Sep 2027

Whatever happens, Ujpest do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Ujpest

Patrizio Stronati 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.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Juan Lopes 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.

Match18 Sep 2027

Honours even between Ujpest and Debrecen

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings20 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Aljoša Matko

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market20 Sep 2027

The Fran Brodić question follows Ujpest around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Fran Brodić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

45 Edition

The Ujpest Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Jun 2027

Arijan Ademi keeps the receipts

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

Market7 Jun 2027

Juan Lopes 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 Ujpest can pretend not to have heard.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Iuri Medeiros 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 Ujpest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Words at Ujpest training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arijan Ademi 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.

Market7 Jun 2027

The Dávid Banai conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Bekescsaba will make the call about Dávid Banai this week. Ujpest have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Riccardo Piscitelli has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ujpest will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief