The Tondela Gazette
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A brace, and Tamble Monteiro takes the afternoon — 8.67
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Tamble Monteiro provided it, and the 8.67 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Hugo due for a Tondela medical
Everything agreed with Corinthians, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Makan Aïko 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 Tondela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Luizinho gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luizinho has just signed for Tondela, and for once the answer mattered.
Market4 Jan 2027
Eyes on Arjen van der Heide again
The phone has started ringing about Arjen van der Heide again, and this time the name on the line is 1º Dezembro. Tondela are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Hugo Félix signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hugo Félix and Tondela agree another 4 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Tondela training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rony Lopes 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Tondela get the job done against Rio Ave
A 3‑1 win over Rio Ave, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Tondela rebuffed over Andrea Belotti
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cagliari have kept their man, and Tondela go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- The terraces Tondela supporters have found a favourite in Hugo Félix
- Player ratings A masterclass from Makan Aïko
- Player ratings Hugo Félix in the eights