The Portuguesa Herald
Squad16 Oct 2028
Hudson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Portuguesa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Portuga falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Looking ahead16 Oct 2028
Top-of-the-table clash for Portuguesa
Boavista next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Portuguesa count the cost of losing Danilo Figueiredo
51 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
Johan De Castro gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market16 Oct 2028
Denilson told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Denilson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Portuguesa.
Squad16 Oct 2028
“I want to play”: Johan De Castro speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
When it matters, Gustavo Sciencia plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
Thiaguinho asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Market Hudson linked with a move away
- Market Portuguesa put João Vitor up for sale
- Loan watch Matheus Cecchini Muller first choice at Rio Branco