The 1º Dezembro Chronicle
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
1º Dezembro part company with Gustavo Sousa
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Match12 Aug 2028
Chastening afternoon for 1º Dezembro
A 1‑4 beating by Belenenses was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
1º Dezembro have nobody left to take training
Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
$1.0M settles it between the clubs for Arnas Voitinovičius
Benfica have accepted the money. What 1º Dezembro do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
Interim Coach takes charge at 1º Dezembro
“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.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Théo Mouyemé says 1º Dezembro went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
João Assunção has agreed to leave 1º Dezembro for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Too dear: 1º Dezembro walk away from Miguel Puche
$540.0K was the most the club would pay and Arouca were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Académico de Viseu tell 1º Dezembro: Aden Dreyer 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.
In brief
- Squad A falling-out at 1º Dezembro
- Squad Words at 1º Dezembro training over how hard people work
- Market 1º Dezembro promote David Moreira from within