The Famalicao Chronicle
Market10 May 2027
Gonzalo Pastor asks to leave Famalicao
“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.
Squad10 May 2027
A falling-out at Famalicao
Sorriso and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 May 2027
Pedro Bondo 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
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The dugout10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Pedro Santos
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 May 2027
Mathias De Amorim linked with a move away
The name of Mathias De Amorim keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Famalicao say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- The dugout Marcos Peña has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout A door opens for Tom van de Looi
- Market Another notebook out for Bastien Meupiyou
- Squad Ivan Zlobin finally belongs at Famalicao