The Alverca Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $7.7M for Tamble Monteiro
Alverca have gone to Rio Ave 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Alverca bid $2.6M for Oumar Camara
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alverca say no — this time
The offer from Ponferradina for Gonçalo Moreira was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eyes on Bastien Meupiyou again
The phone has started ringing about Bastien Meupiyou again, and this time the name on the line is Benfica. Alverca are listening politely and promising nothing.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Alverca go back to the board over Oumar Camara
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Figueiredo stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Figueiredo and Alverca agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Zé Rafael 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Alverca
Sergi Gómez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Paulo Gomes steps up from the Alverca academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paulo Gomes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Alverca promote Fabio Dias from within
- The dugout Figueiredo asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead Chiquinho faces his old club