The Leixões Chronicle
Market24 Jan 2028
Mateus Luiz 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 Leixões can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Leixões
Gioele Zacchi 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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
João Simões gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. João Simões has just signed for Leixões, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Zeno Debast 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.
Match22 Jan 2028
A bad afternoon for Leixões against Vizela
0‑2 to Vizela, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Rafael Santos
“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.
In brief
- Player ratings Werton runs at them all day
- Market Leixões pick up João Simões for nothing