The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle
Market23 Jun 2031
Terms done: Kelvin is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Paredes waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Pacos de Ferreira is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market23 Jun 2031
Raí is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Pacos de Ferreira is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market23 Jun 2031
Kelvin 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 Pacos de Ferreira can pretend not to have heard.
Market23 Jun 2031
Rafael Brito attracts admirers
The name of Rafael Brito has come up in conversations Pacos de Ferreira were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets23 Jun 2031
The paperwork begins on Leonardo Lopes
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Pacos de Ferreira have done the hard part with Portimonense, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets23 Jun 2031
Gil Vicente tell Pacos de Ferreira: Mario Rivas 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.
Squad23 Jun 2031
Words exchanged at Pacos de Ferreira
Carlos Meotti and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad23 Jun 2031
A row about effort at Pacos de Ferreira
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomás Ferreira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad23 Jun 2031
Andre Castro out for 15 days
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Andre Castro, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
- Squad Kostas Dimitriou wants one last season at home
- Transfer targets Pacos de Ferreira try to borrow Werton
- The dugout Tomás Castro knocks on the manager’s door