The AVS Gazette
Squad12 Aug 2030
The knee: Sergio Martins out for 37 days
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AVS lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Aug 2030
Kiki Afonso breaks a bone — 105 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 105 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets12 Aug 2030
AVS agree $710.0K for Nonso Adimabua
The clubs have shaken hands with Nacional; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets12 Aug 2030
Too dear: AVS walk away from Miguel Salgado
$640.0K was the most the club would pay and Oliveirense were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market12 Aug 2030
Anthony Fosse has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AVS they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Aug 2030
Tempers go at AVS
Valente Pierani 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.
Boardroom12 Aug 2030
5 academy graduates step up at AVS
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad12 Aug 2030
A late step up for Adrien Louveau
At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Transfer targets12 Aug 2030
AVS rebuffed over Ignace Van Der Brempt
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Porto have kept their man, and AVS go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Market AVS promote Ruben Lopes from within
- Market One of our own: Tiago Lopes joins the AVS first team
- Market AVS promote Ricardo Ribeiro from within