The Farense Chronicle
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
Pressure builds in the Farense boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
Farense spell it out for Miguel Correia
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Miguel Correia has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market5 Jun 2028
Sarpreet Singh asks to leave Farense
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market5 Jun 2028
Farense turn down Leixões for Pedro Maranhão
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
André Paulo says Farense 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.
Market5 Jun 2028
Francisco Moura raises the bar for Farense
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Farense heard it as anything else.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
Immanuel Hess has agreed to leave Farense for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad5 Jun 2028
A falling-out at Farense
Francisco Moura and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luís Esteves 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Farense rebuffed over Jovan Milošević
- The dugout Francisco Moura without the man who signed him
- The dugout André Ramalho knocks on the manager's door