Lucas Cisneros

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
29 Dec 2032
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Lucas Cisneros

307 Edition

The Maritimo Chronicle

14 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Marco Mendes out for 31 days

31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Maritimo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Terms done: Arnas Voitinovičius is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Rio Ave waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Maritimo is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Lucas Cisneros asks to leave Maritimo

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

Maritimo make their move for Andre Machado

$600.0K on the table at Sporting CP. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Tempers go at Maritimo

Maxime Dominguez 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.

Market

As if he never left: Arsit Kurtaj returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Arsit Kurtaj is a Maritimo player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Leandro Ribeiro

Maritimo asked and Rio Ave said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Maritimo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zé Leite was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Wanderson wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

In brief

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299 Edition

The Maritimo Chronicle

19 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A row about effort at Maritimo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zé Leite was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Maritimo

Wanderson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Wanderson gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Wanderson is on it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Francisco García

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francisco García, and the manager let it.

Market

Arnas Voitinovičius linked with a move away

The name of Arnas Voitinovičius keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Maritimo say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

The manager makes Pedro Vieira a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Maritimo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief