“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Estrela da Amadora can pretend not to have heard.
Lovro Zvonarek 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Leo Ceara 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.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Estrela da Amadora, and 5 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
A 1‑0 win over Alverca, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Joan Jordán was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.03. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Leo Ceara wants continental football; whether Estrela da Amadora can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leo Ceara 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.
13 combined actions and 6.69. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Estrela da Amadora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I watch every Estrela da Amadora game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Penafiel runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
In brief
The dugoutThe view from the dugout
The dugoutSomebody else is better right now than Jefferson Encada
The dugoutYahya Kalley is still being punished for one mistake
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Estrela da Amadora can pretend not to have heard.
Lovro Zvonarek 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leo Ceara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Estrela da Amadora, and 0 appearances in 7 say he has earned the hearing.
At 34, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Estrela da Amadora and Mafra have settled on $1.1M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Estrela da Amadora ran out of time with Kawasaki Frontale. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Estrela da Amadora, and it is not being withdrawn.
14 in and 32 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Estrela da Amadora have gone to Santa Clara with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nacional have kept their man, and Estrela da Amadora go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Leo Ceara 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Estrela da Amadora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Issiar Dramé had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Estrela da Amadora have gone to Kashima Antlers with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The offer went to Vitoria Guimaraes this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Estrela da Amadora can pretend not to have heard.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.8M — a club that wants Oumar Camara enough to be asked twice.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at SuperSport United is saying, and nobody at Estrela da Amadora is enjoying the guessing.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bernardo Schappo and Estrela da Amadora agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.