The Santa Clara Sentinel
Match1 Feb 2027
Santa Clara sink to position 17
12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match30 Jan 2027
7 matches without a win for Santa Clara
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Santa Clara are no longer polite ones.
Market1 Feb 2027
Henrique Silva asks to leave Santa Clara
“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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 6 signed and 4 gone
That is the business done at Santa Clara until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Santa Clara
Gabriel Novaes 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Santa Clara training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guilherme Romão 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 targets1 Feb 2027
Santa Clara rebuffed over Ivan Mandić
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AVS have kept their man, and Santa Clara go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Mouhamadou Sarr gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market1 Feb 2027
Santa Clara promote Pedro Castro from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pedro Castro 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.
In brief
- Market Santa Clara promote Tiago Carvalho from within
- Market One of our own: Fernando Cardoso joins the Santa Clara first team
- Transfer targets Santa Clara try to borrow Raúl Alcaina