Xavier Cavaco

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
27 Jul 2031
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248 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

28 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout28 Apr 2031

Goncalo Tavares keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vitoria Guimaraes may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market28 Apr 2031

Xavier Cavaco asks to leave Vitoria Guimaraes

“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.

Market28 Apr 2031

Pedro Henrique has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vitoria Guimaraes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad28 Apr 2031

Gabriel Veron 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 Vitoria Guimaraes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Apr 2031

Amine El Ouazzani wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Vitoria Guimaraes know it.

Squad28 Apr 2031

Words at Vitoria Guimaraes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathis Lainé 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.

The dugout28 Apr 2031

No hiding place for Yago Felipe

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

Market28 Apr 2031

The Gonçalo Nogueira question follows Vitoria Guimaraes around

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

The dugout28 Apr 2031

When it matters, Rodrigo Cunha plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

29 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad29 Jul 2030

The knee: Germán Mansilla out for 51 days

51 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Vitoria Guimaraes lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market29 Jul 2030

Not going: Adrián Butzke stays at Vitoria Guimaraes

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Feirense had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Transfer targets29 Jul 2030

Ayman Ibrahim is a medical away from Vitoria Guimaraes

The deal with Porto is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

The dugout29 Jul 2030

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Market29 Jul 2030

Segun Adekunle has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vitoria Guimaraes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad29 Jul 2030

Words exchanged at Vitoria Guimaraes

Gabriel Veron 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.

Transfer targets29 Jul 2030

Estoril Praia tell Vitoria Guimaraes: Martin Turk is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad29 Jul 2030

Words at Vitoria Guimaraes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yago Felipe 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.

Squad29 Jul 2030

Xavier Cavaco has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief