Davi Gomes

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
18 Apr 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Davi Gomes

233 Edition

The Alverca Gazette

13 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Alexandre Carl: 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.” Alverca have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Davi Gomes 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 The request is on a desk at Alverca, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Alverca

Zé Rafael 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.

Squad

Words at Alverca training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Léo Maná 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.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 95 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Alverca had all but put away. Moreirense will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

The dugout

Nabil Touaizi is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Cameron Byrne-Hughes is in the works

Alverca have made the call to Manchester United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Player ratings

Nabil Touaizi's mistake decides it

Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Alverca needed to.

Match

Samy Merheg rescues a point for Alverca

It needed Samy Merheg to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Moreirense, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

Back issues
207 Edition

The Alverca Gazette

15 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Alverca baulk at the price for Gabri Martínez

Benfica wanted more than $3.0M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Words exchanged at Alverca

Zé Rafael 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

Real improvement from Ruben Almeida at Alverca

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ruben Almeida is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom

Still no name above the door at Alverca

Day 14 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Squad

Words at Alverca training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nabil Touaizi 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 dugout

Cédric Nuozzi 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.

Market

The Figueiredo talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Alverca know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Competition arrives for Stéphane Diarra

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Alverca have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

The dugout

The manager makes Neo Mokoena a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Alverca. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

203 Edition

The Alverca Gazette

17 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A falling-out at Alverca

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

Squad

Words at Alverca training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zé Rafael 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Cédric Nuozzi

“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.

Squad

No place for Davi Gomes in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Alverca are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

The Figueiredo talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Alverca know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Competition arrives for Dawda Camara

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Alverca have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

In brief