The Braga Post
Squad31 Jan 2028
The knee: Ricardo Horta out for 77 days
77 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Braga lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Too dear: Braga walk away from Vitor Roque
$82.3M was the most the club would pay and Juventus were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market31 Jan 2028
Leonardo Lelo 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 Braga can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Jan 2028
Braga turn down Feirense for Denis Huseinbašić
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Mario Dorgeles is a medical away from Braga
The deal with Benfica is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Player ratings31 Jan 2028
Paulinho did the work nobody counts — 7.28
14 combined actions and 7.28. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Bernardo Fontes
“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.
Match29 Jan 2028
A bad afternoon for Braga against Rio Ave
0‑2 to Rio Ave, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market31 Jan 2028
Rafael Carvalheira wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Squad A falling-out at Braga
- Boardroom Nobody left the Braga dressing room in a hurry
- Squad Diego Rodrigues falls out with a teammate over standards