Michael Smith

Striker - Sporting CP B
1 Oct 2045
Sunday
Process

Marked for Michael Smith

984 Edition

The Sporting CP B Sentinel

5 Jun 2045
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Victor van der Aa breaks a bone — 78 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Adam Kaminski 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 The request is on a desk at Sporting CP B, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Vincent Larsson

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vincent Larsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sporting CP B the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tomás Peixoto signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tomás Peixoto and Sporting CP B agree another 2 years.

Squad

Words at Sporting CP B training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Peixoto 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.

Market

Mousa Mignolet attracts admirers

The name of Mousa Mignolet has come up in conversations Sporting CP B were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

Back issues
976 Edition

The Sporting CP B Sentinel

10 Apr 2045
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Victor van der Aa breaks a bone — 134 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 134 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Moïse Talanga Malomba damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Market

Nicolás Garrido 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 The request is on a desk at Sporting CP B, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Alexandre Rosado has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Tempers go at Sporting CP B

Nikolaj Fischer 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.

Squad

Sporting CP B lose Michael Smith

39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief