The Braga Post
Market26 Jul 2027
Diogo Travassos 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 Braga can pretend not to have heard.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: David Almeida joins the Braga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Almeida is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Jul 2027
Manuel Mendes steps up from the Braga academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Manuel Mendes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market26 Jul 2027
Braga promote Pedro Correia from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pedro Correia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Rayan Lucas 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.
Loan watch26 Jul 2027
João Carvalho counts the days
“I watch every Braga game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Al Shabab runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
When it matters, Roberto Fernández 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 dugout26 Jul 2027
Fran Navarro knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Braga, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
The manager makes Jean-Baptiste Gorby a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Braga. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Squad Sergio Barcia still has not settled
- Squad Adrian Leon Barišić takes up the language
- The dugout The manager comes out for Ricardo Horta