Luka Petrič

Goalkeeper - Sporting CP B
12 Nov 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Luka Petrič

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The Sporting CP B Sentinel

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Rafael Besugo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sporting CP B they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Samuel Justo out for 28 days

The medical room confirms 28 days on the sidelines for Samuel Justo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

A falling-out at Sporting CP B

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

Squad

A row about effort at Sporting CP B

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Silas Andersen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Samuel Justo comes back from a loan that worked

21 appearances and 4 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Sporting CP B

14 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

No hiding place for Lucas Taibo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Taibo, and the manager let it.

Market

The shop window has Silas Andersen in it

Sporting CP B have let the market know Silas Andersen can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

Silas Andersen knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Silas Andersen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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The União de Santarém Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Bura damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

26 days out for Andrei after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. União de Santarém will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Every point is an argument now for União de Santarém

Position 10 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Transfer targets

Lorougnon Gohi turns down União de Santarém

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Académico de Viseu keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

The dugout

Railan keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” União de Santarém may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at União de Santarém

David Simão 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

A row about effort at União de Santarém

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Matos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mo Dauda

União de Santarém asked and Portimonense said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Tiago Madeira back under a manager who knows him

The new man at União de Santarém has worked with Tiago Madeira before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.

In brief