The Oliveirense Courier
Squad3 Jul 2028
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.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
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.
Market3 Jul 2028
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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
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.
Market3 Jul 2028
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.
Market3 Jul 2028
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.
Market3 Jul 2028
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
- Boardroom Oliveirense sign 7 boys into the academy
- Boardroom $709.3K taken back off the Oliveirense table
- Boardroom Oliveirense answer back