The Boavista Sentinel
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Bruno Jesus frozen out at Boavista
This is not rotation. Bruno Jesus has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Boavista is pretending otherwise.
Squad20 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Boavista
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tito was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Boavista
Rafael Belinho 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.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Gabriel Caran has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Boavista will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Misael is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market20 Mar 2028
The Tito question follows Boavista around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tito’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Diego Zalazar knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The shop window has Misael in it
- Squad Questions about Jhonattas Brasileiro on the training pitch
- Squad Alex Bezerra is out on the grass again