The Oliveirense Courier
Boardroom22 May 2028
Pressure builds in the Oliveirense boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad22 May 2028
Léo Fajardo arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Léo Fajardo has, at Oliveirense, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad22 May 2028
A falling-out at Oliveirense
Kazuya Onohara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 May 2028
Words at Oliveirense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Ferreira 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 dugout22 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Miguel Oliveira
“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.
Squad22 May 2028
Goncalo Pacheco signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Goncalo Pacheco and Oliveirense agree another 3 years.
Market22 May 2028
Oliveirense buy the years ahead of Vladyslav Piddubnyi
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market22 May 2028
Oliveirense buy the years ahead of Noah Mapolin
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout22 May 2028
Rodrigo Marquês 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 Rodrigo Marquês trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout Goncalo Pacheco has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Léo Fajardo joins Oliveirense on a free
- The dugout The manager comes out for Benny