The Maritimo Chronicle
Match9 Aug 2027
Maritimo sink to position 17
25 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Martín Tejón is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Maritimo turn down Chaves for Gonçalo Paciência
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Martín Tejón 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 Maritimo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A late step up for Simo
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Kuki Zalazar 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
- Market Maritimo and Gonçalo Paciência are talking past each other
- Market David Freitas leaves for nothing
- Market Rafael Pereira leaves for nothing