The Maritimo Chronicle
Squad16 Aug 2027
Almeida damages knee ligaments — 122 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 122 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Gonçalo Tabuaço says Maritimo went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
A new deal for Nuno Lopes
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Maritimo
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Late improvement for Alfonso Pastor
At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Maritimo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martín Tejón is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Corinthians tell Maritimo: Dieguinho is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Maritimo
Luan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
One of their own: Martín Tejón
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Fabio Martins joins the Maritimo first team
- Market Antonio Cardoso steps up from the Maritimo academy
- Market Maritimo promote Nuno Reis from within