Pedro Borges

Goalkeeper - Grasshopper
11 Sep 2029
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Marked for Pedro Borges

101 Edition

The Oviedo Post

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Jul 2028

Sven Ulreich signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sven Ulreich and Oviedo agree another 1 years.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Éric Bailly 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 Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Sven Ulreich 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.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Is this Sven Ulreich’s last season?

“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Sven Ulreich is 39, with 163 appearances behind him, and Oviedo will have to plan for whichever answer comes.

Market3 Jul 2028

The Éric Bailly question follows Oviedo around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Éric Bailly’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market3 Jul 2028

Still no ink between Oviedo and Jorge Gonzalez

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Oviedo, another week without a signature from Jorge Gonzalez.

In brief

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The Oviedo Post

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom8 May 2028

Oviedo part company with Javier Aguilar

The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.

Squad8 May 2028

Pedro Borges keeps Oviedo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 13 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad8 May 2028

A day Éric Bailly will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad8 May 2028

Éric Bailly is carrying Oviedo

18 goals and a season average of 7.52. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Boardroom8 May 2028

Fernando Delgado steps up at Oviedo for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Squad8 May 2028

Éric Bailly stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Éric Bailly and Oviedo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings8 May 2028

Ilyas Chaira in the eights

A performance of 10.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match6 May 2028

6 unbeaten for Oviedo

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Oviedo did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings8 May 2028

A masterclass from Haissem Hassan

Marked 8.25 — 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.

In brief

79 Edition

The Rio Ave Post

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market31 Jan 2028

Rio Ave say no — this time

The offer from Vitoria Guimaraes for Jakub Brabec 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.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Sidney Lima 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 Rio Ave this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Anass Zarrouk is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.03 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Rio Ave know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Match29 Jan 2028

Manu sends Rio Ave past Estoril Praia

It finished 3‑1, and it was Manu’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rio Ave.

Player ratings31 Jan 2028

A masterclass from Manu

Marked 9.19 — 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.

Player ratings31 Jan 2028

A masterclass from Ole Pohlmann

Marked 9.15 — 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.

Squad31 Jan 2028

The manager makes an example of Tamble Monteiro

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings31 Jan 2028

One of those days for Luca Williams-Barnett

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.59, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market31 Jan 2028

The Sidney Lima question follows Rio Ave around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Sidney Lima’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

67 Edition

The Gil Vicente Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad8 Nov 2027

A one-man rearguard from Lucão

There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market8 Nov 2027

Lucão hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gil Vicente can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings8 Nov 2027

Santi García runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Santi García 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 Gil Vicente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad8 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Jonathan Buatu

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match6 Nov 2027

Carlos Eduardo rescues a point for Gil Vicente

It needed Carlos Eduardo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Braga, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Gustavo Varela 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 Gustavo Varela trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market8 Nov 2027

The Mohamed Bamba talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gil Vicente know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market8 Nov 2027

Pedro Borges leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Pedro Borges leaves Gil Vicente the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief