The Paredes Post
Market24 Jan 2028
César Sousa 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 Paredes can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Paredes agree $540.0K for Lucas Moura
The clubs have shaken hands with AVS; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Nathan turns down Paredes
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Vitoria Guimaraes keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Hugo Gomes is a medical away from Paredes
The deal with Benfica 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.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
No deal for Luís Pires at that price
Paredes offered $36.0K; Fafe said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words at Paredes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel Moreno 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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Erik Santana 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 Paredes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Lucas Hipólito
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Paredes lose Andre Teixeira
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- The dugout Kauê Vinícius is still paying for one afternoon at Paredes
- Market The clock does Filipe Cardoso’s negotiating for him
- The dugout Yuk Jin-young knocks on the manager’s door