Denis Guţu

Goalkeeper - Académico de Viseu
2 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Denis Guţu

11 Edition

The Académico de Viseu Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

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

Oskar Pietuszewski 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

One of our own: Daniel Carvalho joins the Académico de Viseu first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Carvalho is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Words exchanged at Académico de Viseu

Tomás Domingos 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

Académico de Viseu are still strangers to each other

12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

When it matters, Marquinho plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Académico de Viseu Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Académico de Viseu make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Académico de Viseu have 5 straight wins of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Académico de Viseu

Oskar Pietuszewski 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

Lorougnon Gohi 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.

Match

Académico de Viseu see off Maritimo

Three points for Académico de Viseu, 2‑1 the final word against Maritimo in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

A month that belonged to Oskar Pietuszewski

The young player of the month award goes to a 18-year-old at Académico de Viseu who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Player ratings

Cristian Ferreira takes the honours

Marked 7.97 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Académico de Viseu had the best player on the pitch.

Boardroom

Wages eat 88% of everything Académico de Viseu earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Valery

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Valery has come out of that comparison in the side, and Académico de Viseu have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Fabio Neves kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief