Andre Silva

Right Forward - Free Agent
31 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Andre Silva

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The Oliveirense Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Simão Arede is a medical away from Oliveirense

The deal with Tondela is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Match

Oliveirense see off Portimonense

Three points for Oliveirense, 2‑1 the final word against Portimonense in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

One of their own: Miguel Monteiro

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.

Squad

Iago is a square peg at Oliveirense

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Player ratings

Iago takes the honours

Marked 7.90 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Oliveirense had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Words exchanged at Oliveirense

João Sérgio 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.

Squad

Andre Silva signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andre Silva commits to Oliveirense for another 3 years.

The dugout

Felipe Correia: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

Squad

Iago scores his first for Oliveirense

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Oliveirense Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Leixões come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Oliveirense did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A move Leonardo Cá would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Leonardo Cá is living that version at Oliveirense, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Pedro Balotelli turns down Oliveirense

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Novorizontino keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Market

Gonçalo Pimenta comes home

The shirt still fits. Gonçalo Pimenta is back at Oliveirense, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Transfer targets

Oliveirense rebuffed over David Costa

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torreense have kept their man, and Oliveirense go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Oliveirense promote Andre Silva from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andre Silva 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

Nuno Santos steps up from the Oliveirense academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nuno Santos 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.

Squad

Kotaro Nagata signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kotaro Nagata and Oliveirense agree another 5 years.

Squad

No place for João Miguel in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Oliveirense are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief