Daniel Simoes

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8 Jul 2028
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Process

Marked for Daniel Simoes

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The Altach Courier

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mike-Steven Bähre

102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Altach lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Clemente Mondaca puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Altach, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Altach go back to the board over Philip Weissenbacher

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $50.0K — a club that wants Philip Weissenbacher enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Words exchanged at Altach

Mike-Steven Bähre 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $43.0K for Philip Weissenbacher

Altach have gone to SV Ried with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

A row about effort at Altach

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benedikt Zech was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Altach beat the market to Thorsten Schriebl from Austria Klagenfurt

Austria Klagenfurt will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Thorsten Schriebl has pre-agreed a move to Altach, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Home is on Bastián Contreras's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Altach are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Market

Altach sign Daniel Simoes, one for the future

Daniel Simoes is 16, and Altach have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

Back issues
82 Edition

The Porto Herald

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Porto run riot against Alverca

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Bruno Fernandes scores twice — 8.32

Two goals and a mark of 8.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

11 unbeaten for Porto

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Porto did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Oskar Pietuszewski at 19 — 8.47

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oskar Pietuszewski did not need any: 8.47, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Remember the name: Oskar Pietuszewski

He is 19, he is averaging 7.24, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Market

Marlon Gomes has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Porto can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Market

Porto promote Daniel Simoes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Simoes 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.

Market

Porto promote Antonio Teixeira from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Antonio Teixeira 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.

Market

Hugo Pereira steps up from the Porto academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hugo Pereira 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.

In brief