Andre Marques

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19 Sep 2038
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Marked for Andre Marques

629 Edition

The Benfica Gazette

16 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match14 Aug 2038

Nobody wins at Benfica

46 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad16 Aug 2038

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rayane Bounida

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Benfica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match14 Aug 2038

Still nobody has beaten Benfica

The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings16 Aug 2038

Age has not caught Wilson Odobert yet — 8.86

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad16 Aug 2038

A one-man rearguard from Anatolii Trubin

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market16 Aug 2038

Eduardo Miranda 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 The request is on a desk at Benfica, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad16 Aug 2038

Rayane Bounida 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 Benfica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market16 Aug 2038

Benfica say no — this time

The offer from Pacos de Ferreira for Manuel Lopes 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.

Squad16 Aug 2038

Words at Benfica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. António Silva is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

Back issues
625 Edition

The Benfica Gazette

19 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad19 Jul 2038

Stevan Manuel damages knee ligaments — 39 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad19 Jul 2038

José Neto: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Benfica have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market19 Jul 2038

Eduardo Miranda asks to leave Benfica

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market19 Jul 2038

Benfica turn down Santa Clara for Bruno Borges

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad19 Jul 2038

Rayane Bounida 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 Benfica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Jul 2038

Words at Benfica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. António Silva is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

621 Edition

The Benfica Gazette

21 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market21 Jun 2038

Eduardo Miranda asks to leave Benfica

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad21 Jun 2038

Patrick Vasseur: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Benfica have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad21 Jun 2038

Tempers go at Benfica

Rayane Bounida was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market21 Jun 2038

Benfica say no — this time

The offer from Boavista for Ruben Marques 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.

Squad21 Jun 2038

António Silva 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.

Market21 Jun 2038

Andre Marques has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Benfica they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief