David Borges

Left Forward - Estrela da Amadora U18
11 May 2029
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The Estrela da Amadora Post

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Emergency meeting at Estrela da Amadora

The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.

Market7 Feb 2028

Only the photograph left for Max Scholze

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Max Scholze will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Estrela da Amadora the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market7 Feb 2028

Dudu asks to leave Estrela da Amadora

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Window shuts: 1 in, 4 out at Estrela da Amadora

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market7 Feb 2028

The Estoril Praia deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Dudu reports back to Estrela da Amadora with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Estrela da Amadora to lose Max Scholze for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Max Scholze has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at Estrela da Amadora

Hwang In-Beom 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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Words at Estrela da Amadora training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abraham Marcus 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.

Transfer targets7 Feb 2028

Benfica tell Estrela da Amadora: Caleb Yirenkyi is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

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The Estrela da Amadora Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match14 Aug 2027

A hiding for Estrela da Amadora

Beaten 0‑3 by Porto, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

The dugout16 Aug 2027

Luan Patrick says Estrela da Amadora went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

An offer of $8.7M for Hojimat Erkinov

Estrela da Amadora have gone to Bunyodkor 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.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Estrela da Amadora

Anísio Cabral 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.

Boardroom16 Aug 2027

Graduation day at Estrela da Amadora

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad16 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Estrela da Amadora

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abraham Marcus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market16 Aug 2027

David Borges steps up from the Estrela da Amadora academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Borges 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.

Market16 Aug 2027

Estrela da Amadora promote Luis Ribeiro from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Ribeiro 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.

Market16 Aug 2027

One of our own: Rodrigo Gomes joins the Estrela da Amadora first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rodrigo Gomes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief