Roei Blejer

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Oliveirense
18 Sep 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Roei Blejer

101 Edition

The Oliveirense Courier

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kazuya Onohara damages knee ligaments — 93 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 93 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Oliveirense can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Alfredo 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 Oliveirense can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Real improvement from Lukas Talen at Oliveirense

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lukas Talen is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Rui Mendes 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 Oliveirense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Oliveirense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Frederico Venâncio 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.

Market

Raniel wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Market

Oliveirense buy the years ahead of Roei Blejer

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

A long bet from Oliveirense on Matias Rebolo

He is 20, and nobody at Oliveirense signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

Back issues
98 Edition

The Gil Vicente Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Roei Blejer has agreed to leave Gil Vicente for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Murilo Souza 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 Gil Vicente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Marvin Elimbi 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.

In brief

98 Edition

The Oliveirense Courier

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kazuya Onohara

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

Market

Oliveirense say no — this time

The offer from Braga for Lourenço Henriques 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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $3.9M sale of Benny

He is going to Moreirense, the club has $3.9M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Benny moves on

Moreirense pay $3.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Rafael Brito moves on

Estrela da Amadora pay $1.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Business is business: Amadou Diallo goes

Torreense paid $1.3M and Oliveirense took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Tempers go at Oliveirense

Rui Mendes 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Afonso Manso at Oliveirense

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Afonso Manso is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Lysandros Thomakos gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lysandros Thomakos has just signed for Oliveirense, and for once the answer mattered.

In brief