The Sporting CP Herald
Match12 Aug 2028
Fotis Ioannidis leads the rout of Portimonense
3‑0, and Fotis Ioannidis took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Sporting CP tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market14 Aug 2028
Biel asks to leave Sporting CP
“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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A one-man rearguard from Rui Silva
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Agustín Ruberto is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Pote 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 Sporting CP this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Rodrigo Zalazar 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.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sporting CP
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Fotis Ioannidis was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Pote in the eights
A performance of 8.82 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Market Sporting CP promote Daniel Simoes from within
- Market One of our own: Ruben Fernandes joins the Sporting CP first team
- Market One of our own: Tiago Reis joins the Sporting CP first team