The Sporting CP Herald
Squad29 May 2028
A fracture rules Rui Silva out for 119 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sporting CP will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad29 May 2028
Words at Sporting CP training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Callai 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.
Market29 May 2028
One of our own: Afonso Miranda joins the Sporting CP first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Afonso Miranda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market29 May 2028
Sporting CP promote Bruno Silva from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bruno Silva has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market29 May 2028
One of our own: Antonio Cardoso joins the Sporting CP first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Antonio Cardoso is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market29 May 2028
One of our own: Francisco Monteiro joins the Sporting CP first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Francisco Monteiro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad29 May 2028
Tempers go at Sporting CP
Juan Bezerra 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.
Squad29 May 2028
Sporting CP are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout29 May 2028
Rui Silva 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 Rui Silva is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Biel knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Juan Bezerra
- The dugout Gonçalo Cardoso has been promised minutes