João Matos

Central Defender - Mirandés
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The Mirandés Post

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 Jul 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ryunosuke Sato

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mirandés lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market31 Jul 2028

Tigres come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Mirandés did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom31 Jul 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Mirandés

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad31 Jul 2028

João Matos: 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.” Mirandés have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market31 Jul 2028

Guti is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mirandés is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market31 Jul 2028

Ramón 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.

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The Mirandés Post

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Feb 2028

Nowhere to hide for Mirandés

0‑4 against Gijón, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

The terraces28 Feb 2028

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 11 of the 38 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Player ratings28 Feb 2028

Nobody could get near Pablo López

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Tempers go at Mirandés

Igor Nikić 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.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Remember the name: Ryunosuke Sato

He is 21, he is averaging 7.06, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Pietro Baietta gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Pietro Baietta has just signed for Mirandés, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Words at Mirandés training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryunosuke Sato 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.

Boardroom28 Feb 2028

Inquest at Mirandés

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Market28 Feb 2028

Mirandés buy the years ahead of Pietro Baietta

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief