Alani

Defensive Midfielder - Maritimo
24 Nov 2026
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Marked for Alani

17 Edition

The Maritimo Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Nov 2026

Alani damages knee ligaments — 93 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 93 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

A fracture rules Jonathan Bryan out for 74 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Maritimo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match21 Nov 2026

Maritimo let it slip despite Adrián Butzke

Adrián Butzke had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Sporting CP B were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Adrián Butzke scores twice — 8.84

Two goals and a mark of 8.84 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Maritimo

Adrián Butzke 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Pedro Teixeira signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pedro Teixeira commits to Maritimo for another 3 years.

Match21 Nov 2026

Honours even between Maritimo and Sporting CP B

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Alfonso Pastor 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.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Eduardo Fernandes on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Eduardo Fernandes after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Maritimo Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Nov 2026

Alani damages knee ligaments — 101 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 101 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Jonathan Bryan breaks a bone — 83 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Maritimo

Adrián Butzke 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Maritimo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raphael Guzzo 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Romain Correia

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

The dugout16 Nov 2026

When it matters, José Melro 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.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

Rafael Fernandes goes back to face Sporting CP B

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Rafael Fernandes’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Maritimo needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Carlos Daniel has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Carlos Daniel has written the date down.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Gábor Szalai knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Maritimo, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

6 Edition

The Maritimo Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Sep 2026

Sidney Osei puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Maritimo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 8 in, 11 out at Maritimo

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 11 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market7 Sep 2026

Sidney Osei’s move to Trofense falls through

The deal that would have taken Sidney Osei to Trofense has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Maritimo with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Raphael Guzzo 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 targets7 Sep 2026

Portimonense tell Maritimo: Dânio Djassi is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Martim Tavares

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

Squad7 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Maritimo

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

Squad7 Sep 2026

Maritimo 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Martim Tavares wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Maritimo will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief