The Sporting CP B Sentinel
Market7 Dec 2026
Sporting CP B say no — this time
The offer from Cruzeiro for Flávio Gonçalves was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Paulo Simão says Sporting CP B went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Issa Doumbia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Sporting CP B
Issa Doumbia 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Rafael Mota 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Sporting CP B come up short against Lusitânia Lourosa
Lusitânia Lourosa left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Diego Callai
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Paulo Cardoso never got going
5.40 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Market7 Dec 2026
The Manuel Mendonça question follows Sporting CP B around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Manuel Mendonça’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Pedro Lima placed on the list
- Market The clock does Mauro Couto’s negotiating for him