The Académica Gazette
Market16 Aug 2027
Académica say no — this time
The offer from Gijón for Jelani Trevisan was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market16 Aug 2027
Kaká puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Académica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
An offer of $3.4M for Bright Arrey-Mbi
Académica have gone to Braga 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
No deal for Bright Arrey-Mbi at that price
Académica offered $3.4M; Braga 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Sergio Bermejo 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 Académica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Académica
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match14 Aug 2027
Académica make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Edgar Ié 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Door shut on João Rego
Académica asked and Benfica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Match Académica end the wait against Lusitano Évora
- Market Académica promote Jorge Simoes from within
- Market Académica promote David Teixeira from within