Derek Jiménez

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Alverca
22 Mar 2029
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137 Edition

The Alverca Gazette

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market12 Mar 2029

Matheus Mendes asks to leave Alverca

“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.

Match10 Mar 2029

Alverca cannot stop winning

7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

José Luís Sanabria: 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.” Alverca have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Sydney van Hooijdonk signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sydney van Hooijdonk commits to Alverca for another 4 years.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Words at Alverca training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Toni Tamarit 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.

Match10 Mar 2029

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Alverca. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match10 Mar 2029

Alverca get the job done against Sporting CP B

A 1‑0 win over Sporting CP B, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings12 Mar 2029

One of those days for Sydney van Hooijdonk

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Ko Matsubara in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Alverca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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120 Edition

The Alverca Gazette

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market13 Nov 2028

Diogo Spencer 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 Alverca, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match11 Nov 2028

Still nobody has beaten Alverca

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

Nabil Touaizi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Words exchanged at Alverca

Caíque Gonçalves and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Loan watch13 Nov 2028

Davy Gui has seen enough of Farense

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Alverca, and 3 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad13 Nov 2028

A row about effort at Alverca

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

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

A masterclass from Naïs Djouahra

Marked 8.11 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Derek Jiménez wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Alverca can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Alverca are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

112 Edition

The Alverca Gazette

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market18 Sep 2028

Diogo Spencer 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 Alverca, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

Nathan Fogaça: 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.” Alverca have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad18 Sep 2028

6 saves: Matheus Mendes was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Words exchanged at Alverca

Caíque Gonçalves and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match16 Sep 2028

Alverca come up short against Arouca

Arouca left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad18 Sep 2028

A row about effort at Alverca

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

Match16 Sep 2028

After 4 games, Alverca finally taste it again

The first defeat in 4 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Arouca; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Duarte Machado left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Nabil Touaizi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief