The Rio Ave Post
Squad29 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Rio Ave
Jordan Holsgrove and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Rio Ave training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marios Vrousai 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Alexis Macías out for 18 days
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Alexis Macías, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Too much change too quickly at Rio Ave
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
André Luis knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and André Luis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Dai Baldé gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market29 Mar 2027
Ole Pohlmann linked with a move away
The name of Ole Pohlmann keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Rio Ave say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
Nobody is scoring past Antzelo Sina at Sanjoanense
6 shut-outs in 13 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Antzelo Sina has been having a lot of them.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
5 goals on loan for Tamás Nikitscher
16 appearances at Trofense and the goals keep coming. Rio Ave are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
In brief
- Loan watch Oliveirense cannot leave Kevin Chamorro out
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Tobías Medina’s exile
- The dugout Diogo Bezerra has been promised minutes