The Penafiel Post
The terraces23 Jun 2031
The mood at Penafiel has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom23 Jun 2031
Pressure builds in the Penafiel boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market23 Jun 2031
Marios Siabanis puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Penafiel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets23 Jun 2031
Penafiel make their move for João Lima
$980.0K on the table at Arouca. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market23 Jun 2031
Nikita Solonovich is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Penafiel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets23 Jun 2031
Penafiel rebuffed over Cardoso Varela
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sporting CP have kept their man, and Penafiel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad23 Jun 2031
A falling-out at Penafiel
Marios Siabanis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market23 Jun 2031
Lucca has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Penafiel can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad23 Jun 2031
Davo 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.
In brief
- Squad Danilo Silva signs a new deal
- Market Penafiel put Rafa Oliveira up for sale
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Kirill Klimov