Vítor Conceição

Right Midfielder - Free Agent
2 Feb 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Vítor Conceição

40 Edition

The Sporting CP B Sentinel

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Rodrigo Dias puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sporting CP B, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Vítor Conceição: 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.” Sporting CP B have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Rayhan Momade

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rayhan Momade will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sporting CP B the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Sporting CP B

Eduardo Felicíssimo 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 Rodrigo Dias was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Manuel Kissanga gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Rafael Nel has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Sporting CP B will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout

Rafael Nel knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sporting CP B, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Francisco Silva loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Francisco Silva. Sporting CP B will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Sporting CP B Sentinel

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Sporting CP B

Chris Grombahi 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 Sporting CP B

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Rodrigo Dias

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

The dugout

Rafael Nel has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sporting CP B will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Manuel Kissanga 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 Manuel Kissanga trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Eduardo Felicíssimo story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eduardo Felicíssimo signs something — a contract at Sporting CP B or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief