The Portimonense Courier
Market31 Dec 2029
Leonardo Cardoso 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 Portimonense can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Dec 2029
Rafael Vieira has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Portimonense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match29 Dec 2029
The wait goes on for Portimonense
4 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.
Squad31 Dec 2029
A falling-out at Portimonense
Ricardo Mangas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Dec 2029
The goals have deserted Portimonense
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Portimonense can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings31 Dec 2029
Nobody could get near Miguel Falé
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Dec 2029
Mansur 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.
Match29 Dec 2029
Portimonense come up short against Leixões
Leixões left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Dec 2029
Jotavê gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout Interim Coach answers for it
- The dugout Andre Costa asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead João Reis goes back to face Vizela