The Chaves Herald
Match12 Aug 2028
16 matches without a win for Chaves
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Chaves are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Aug 2028
The knee: Diogo Pereira out for 37 days
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Chaves lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Ianson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chaves have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market14 Aug 2028
Costinha asks to leave Chaves
“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.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
The paperwork begins on Manuel Baldé
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Chaves have done the hard part with Vizela, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Chaves make their move for João Costa
$400.0K on the table at Famalicao. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A falling-out at Chaves
David Moreira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Chaves
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Chaves rebuffed over Thiago Helguera
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Porto have kept their man, and Chaves go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Mfundo Vilakazi
- Market Manuel Silva steps up from the Chaves academy
- Market One of our own: Ricardo Tavares joins the Chaves first team