The AVS Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
AVS make their move for Sikou Niakaté
$5.8M on the table at Braga. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
AVS pay Casa Pia $1.4M for a proper upgrade
Casa Pia did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $1.4M for Ivan Mandić, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Roni signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roni and AVS agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at AVS
Aderllan Santos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
AVS rebuffed over Gabriel Bontempo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Santos have kept their man, and AVS go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Bernardo Marques joins the AVS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bernardo Marques is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Afonso Ribeiro steps up from the AVS academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Afonso Ribeiro 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
AVS promote Jorge Nascimento from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Nascimento 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AVS
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorge Meireles was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Jorge Meireles
- Squad The formation has left Lucas Villela behind
- The dugout Roni knocks on the manager's door