The Académico de Viseu Chronicle
Market8 Feb 2027
Matheus Sampaio agrees terms with PSM
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Académico de Viseu people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market8 Feb 2027
Gustavo Costa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Académico de Viseu can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Bruno Branco: 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Lorougnon Gohi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match6 Feb 2027
Académico de Viseu make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Académico de Viseu have 3 straight wins of it.
Match6 Feb 2027
Académico de Viseu keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Héctor Zabala gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Héctor Zabala has just signed for Académico de Viseu, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Académico de Viseu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorougnon Gohi 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Pacos de Ferreira tell Académico de Viseu: Diegão 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.
In brief
- Squad A falling-out at Académico de Viseu
- Loan watch Tomás Silva has seen enough of Pacos de Ferreira
- Match Académico de Viseu get the job done against Lusitânia Lourosa