The Estrela da Amadora Post
Squad19 Jun 2028
Daniel Banjaqui is the real thing at 20
A season average of 7.16 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Estrela da Amadora know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Lovro Zvonarek 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 Estrela da Amadora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A row about effort at Estrela da Amadora
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Erison was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Door shut on Héctor Bellerín
Estrela da Amadora asked and Boca Juniors said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Estrela da Amadora count the cost of losing Leandro Sauane
40 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Estrela da Amadora try to borrow Héctor Bellerín
Boca Juniors have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
Caolan Boyd-Munce 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 Estrela da Amadora, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market19 Jun 2028
No place for Eddy Doué in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Eddy Doué has his answer from Estrela da Amadora; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
Alex Sola 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.
In brief
- Market The Erison story refuses to die
- The dugout Kevin Höög Jansson has been promised minutes
- Market Dudu placed on the list