Marked for Daniel Vestergaard
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Uneasy
Squad10 Apr 2034
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad10 Apr 2034
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maritimo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Apr 2034
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Maritimo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Apr 2034
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad3 Apr 2034
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maritimo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 Apr 2034
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maritimo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Player ratings27 Mar 2034
Successful dribbles: 64. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Mar 2034
A European night to remember for Maritimo
0‑0 against Novi Pazar, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad27 Mar 2034
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maritimo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad27 Mar 2034
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Gabriel 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad20 Mar 2034
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad20 Mar 2034
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maritimo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad20 Mar 2034
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maritimo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Mar 2034
Mathijs Tielemans 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.
Market20 Mar 2034
The Mario Rivas talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Maritimo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market20 Mar 2034
Still no signature from Sidney Osei
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Maritimo could get for him.
In brief
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Boardroom
Maritimo keep producing them
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The terraces
The press have found their man in Serif Nhaga
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Mar 2034
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad13 Mar 2034
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maritimo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad13 Mar 2034
Words at Maritimo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martín Tejón 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.