Denis Guţu

Goalkeeper - Académico de Viseu U20
12 Jun 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Denis Guţu

24 Edition

The Académico de Viseu Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

15 matches without a win for Académico de Viseu

The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Académico de Viseu are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Benjamim Fonseca damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Igor Milioransa asks to leave Académico de Viseu

“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.

Market

Lusitânia Lourosa come back empty-handed

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

Market

Igor Milioransa is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Académico de Viseu is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Denis Guţu: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Académico de Viseu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

Issoufi Maïga signs for Estrela da Amadora while still at Académico de Viseu

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Issoufi Maïga has agreed terms with Estrela da Amadora for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

André Clovis 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 Académico de Viseu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Denis Guţu at Académico de Viseu

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Denis Guţu is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Académico de Viseu Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Académico de Viseu

11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Robinho 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 Académico de Viseu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Denis Guţu at Académico de Viseu

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Denis Guţu is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Palmeiras join the queue for Simão Silva

Add another name to the list: Palmeiras have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Simão Silva. The answer from Académico de Viseu has not changed — yet.

Squad

No hiding place for Soufiane Messeguem

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Soufiane Messeguem, and the manager let it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Académico de Viseu against Sporting CP B

0‑1 to Sporting CP B, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Talks stall between Académico de Viseu and Pedro Barcelos

“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.

Squad

Académico de Viseu pick somebody else ahead of Ibson Melo

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Soufiane Messeguem

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

12 Edition

The Académico de Viseu Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Squad

André Clovis 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 Académico de Viseu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Denis Guţu is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Match

Lorougnon Gohi’s goal not enough for Académico de Viseu

Lorougnon Gohi scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Benfica B, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Cristian Ferreira

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Lorougnon Gohi was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

8 Edition

The Académico de Viseu Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

André Clovis 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 Académico de Viseu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Denis Guţu at Académico de Viseu

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Denis Guţu is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

No hiding place for Lorougnon Gohi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lorougnon Gohi, and the manager let it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Académico de Viseu against Lusitânia Lourosa

0‑1 to Lusitânia Lourosa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Cristian Ferreira runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Robinho 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 Robinho trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief