The Chaves Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Luis Rodrigues
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chaves lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Aug 2026
Chaves say no — this time
The offer from Arouca for João Teixeira was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
João Celeri arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. João Celeri has, at Chaves, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Yoël van den Ban turns down Chaves
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AZ keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bruno Rodrigues stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bruno Rodrigues and Chaves agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Chaves
João Valido 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of João Valido
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
União de Santarém watching Mamadou Tounkara
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Chaves have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Daniel Pinto joins the Chaves first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Pinto is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Joao Conceicao steps up from the Chaves academy
- Transfer targets A loan move for Wassim Bouziane is in the works
- The dugout João Teixeira knocks on the manager's door