Gabriel Mec

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Porto
29 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Mec

4 Edition

The Porto Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

No mercy from Porto

Estrela da Amadora will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Porto were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Market

Business is business: Samu Aghehowa goes

Barcelona paid $35.9M and Porto took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Business is business: Gabri Veiga goes

Union Berlin paid $34.4M and Porto took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Burnley come back empty-handed

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

Player ratings

Both of them Pepê's — 8.54

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.54, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Gabriel Mec turns Free State Stars down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

Porto rebuffed over Mathias De Amorim

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Famalicao have kept their man, and Porto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

Victor Froholdt, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.13

A mark of 8.13 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Victor Froholdt 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 Porto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • The terraces The crowd has taken to Gabriel Veron
  • Squad Words at Porto training over how hard people work
  • Squad Appearance number 200 for Pepê