The Famalicao Chronicle
Squad28 Jun 2038
A fracture rules Mathias De Amorim out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Famalicao will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market28 Jun 2038
Famalicao say no — this time
The offer from Benfica for Gustavo Sá was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market28 Jun 2038
Afonso Sambú asks to leave Famalicao
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2038
Tempers go at Famalicao
Gustavo Sá 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 Jun 2038
Finn van Breemen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad28 Jun 2038
Famalicao count the cost of losing Matheus Araújo
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The terraces The stands have heard the Gustavo Sá talk too
- Market Niklas Tauer placed on the list