Alex Pancini

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The Estrela da Amadora Post

28 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom28 May 2029

Pressure builds in the Estrela da Amadora boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad28 May 2029

Tempers go at Estrela da Amadora

Wendel Silva 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.

The dugout28 May 2029

Rodrigo Macedo frozen out at Estrela da Amadora

This is not rotation. Rodrigo Macedo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Estrela da Amadora is pretending otherwise.

Squad28 May 2029

Abraham Marcus 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.

Market28 May 2029

Yahya Kalley returns a better player

29 games and 1 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.

Squad28 May 2029

Alex Pancini stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alex Pancini and Estrela da Amadora agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout28 May 2029

A promise honoured for Jesús Vargas

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Estrela da Amadora told Jesús Vargas something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout28 May 2029

Luan Patrick asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout28 May 2029

When it matters, Kévin Zohi 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 Estrela da Amadora Post

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout21 May 2029

Abraham Marcus frozen out at Estrela da Amadora

This is not rotation. Abraham Marcus has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Estrela da Amadora is pretending otherwise.

Market21 May 2029

Atanas Chernev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Estrela da Amadora is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad21 May 2029

Odin Dybvad 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. Odin Dybvad has, at Estrela da Amadora, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad21 May 2029

Abraham Marcus 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.

Squad21 May 2029

Tempers go at Estrela da Amadora

Gal Kranjčič 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.

The dugout21 May 2029

Djibril Soumaré is still paying for one afternoon at Estrela da Amadora

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market21 May 2029

Estrela da Amadora sign Alex Pancini, one for the future

Alex Pancini is 20, and Estrela da Amadora have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout21 May 2029

The manager makes an example of Fernando Silva

“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.

The dugout21 May 2029

Luan Patrick 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 Luan Patrick trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief