The Caldas Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
Joel Ferreira gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Joel Ferreira has just signed for Caldas, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hugo Sousa in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Caldas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Joel Ferreira 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Caldas rebuffed over David Costa
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torreense have kept their man, and Caldas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Andre Borges joins the Caldas first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andre Borges is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Manuel Pereira steps up from the Caldas academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Manuel Pereira 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Andre Conceicao steps up from the Caldas academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andre Conceicao 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Andre Teixeira joins the Caldas first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andre Teixeira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The formation has left Tomás Podstawski behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Caldas will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Jair Monteiro is in the works
- Looking ahead Caldas host Amora