The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $18.8M for Mateus Mané
Vitoria Guimaraes have gone to Wolverhampton 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Benfica come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vitoria Guimaraes did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Vitoria Guimaraes make their move for Rubens
$9.8M on the table at Dinamo Moscow. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Gustavo Silva takes the afternoon — 8.65
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gustavo Silva provided it, and the 8.65 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Vitoria Guimaraes baulk at the price for Jean-Baptiste Gorby
Braga wanted more than $5.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Oumar Camara goes
Porto paid $3.1M and Vitoria Guimaraes took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.4M for Miguel Sousa
Vitoria Guimaraes have gone to Leixões 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Vitoria Guimaraes
João Mendes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Vitoria Guimaraes
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.
In brief
- Match Vitoria Guimaraes see off Nacional
- Market Pedro Simoes steps up from the Vitoria Guimaraes academy
- Market Vitoria Guimaraes promote Bruno Lopes from within