Mohammad Ali

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Paredes
9 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mohammad Ali

54 Edition

The Paredes Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.5M for MT

Paredes have gone to Santa Clara with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Samuel Bamba is a medical away from Paredes

The deal with Maritimo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Paredes walk away from Kévin Zohi

$880.0K was the most the club would pay and Torreense were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Tempers go at Paredes

Frederico Venâncio 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

Anílson 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.

Market

Talks stall between Paredes and João Serrão

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

Back issues
47 Edition

The Paredes Post

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Chiheb Labidi turns down Paredes

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Nacional keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Paredes bid $2.8M for Matheus Dias

The offer went to Nacional this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Words exchanged at Paredes

Frederico Venâncio and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Real improvement from Miguel Vieira at Paredes

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

Squad

Anílson 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gustavo Correia

Paredes asked and Vitoria Guimaraes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

44 Edition

The Paredes Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Paredes to lose Miguel Vieira for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Miguel Vieira has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Market

Only the photograph left for Miguel Vieira

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Miguel Vieira will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paredes the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Paredes

Frederico Venâncio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A move Wojciech Kotulak would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Wojciech Kotulak is living that version at Paredes, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Juan Pablo Otálvaro 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.

Market

A long bet from Paredes on Mohammad Ali

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

Market

Paredes sign Hichem Adberrebi, one for the future

Hichem Adberrebi is 19, and Paredes have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

Paredes sign Espen Krogedal, one for the future

Espen Krogedal is 18, and Paredes have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

5 new faces, and Paredes are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief