Andre Pinto

Central Defender - Leixões
22 Apr 2029
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128 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match6 Jan 2029

The wait goes on for Leixões

16 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Boardroom8 Jan 2029

Henrique Simoes has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Leixões can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Transfer targets8 Jan 2029

$5.3M settles it between the clubs for MT

Santa Clara have accepted the money. What Leixões do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market8 Jan 2029

Joel Oliveira has said yes to Marco 09

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Leixões have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market8 Jan 2029

Carlos Fernández hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Leixões can pretend not to have heard.

Market8 Jan 2029

Federico Coletta has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leixões they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets8 Jan 2029

Gonçalo Nogueira will not be coming to Leixões

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Vitoria Guimaraes is saying, and nobody at Leixões is enjoying the guessing.

Match6 Jan 2029

Leixões cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Market8 Jan 2029

Business is business: Ricardo Martins goes

AVS paid $710.0K and Leixões took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

In brief

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107 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom14 Aug 2028

David Conceicao is out at Leixões

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Market14 Aug 2028

Terms done: Rafael Barbosa is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Belenenses waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Leixões is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Jordan Yaya breaks a bone — 75 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 75 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom14 Aug 2028

Henrique Simoes takes charge at Leixões

“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.

Match12 Aug 2028

No end in sight to Leixões's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leixões has to find a result from somewhere.

Boardroom14 Aug 2028

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Leixões

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.

Market14 Aug 2028

São João de Ver watching Carlos Fernández

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Leixões have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets14 Aug 2028

Sporting CP tell Leixões: Werton 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.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Leixões

Rafael Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief