Andre Green

Right Midfielder - AVS
11 Nov 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Andre Green

13 Edition

The AVS Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

AVS are in real trouble now

Position 18, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match

AVS end the wait against Santa Clara

It had gone 10 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad

Words exchanged at AVS

Josué Sá 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andre Green

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A row about effort at AVS

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zé Leite was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Tiago Silva

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tiago Silva, and the manager let it.

Match

AVS get the job done against Santa Clara

A 1‑0 win over Santa Clara, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Ponck told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ponck has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AVS.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Wallace Yan

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. AVS told Wallace Yan something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

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The AVS Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Zé Leite scores twice — 8.92

Two goals and a mark of 8.92 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

No end in sight to AVS's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AVS has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for AVS

7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Transfer targets

Alexis Sinisterra turns down AVS

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at AVS

Diego Duarte 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.

Match

Zé Leite’s goal not enough for AVS

Zé Leite scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Vitoria Guimaraes, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

Raul Steffens 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.

Squad

A row about effort at AVS

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Quaresma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Andre Green was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

4 Edition

The AVS Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for AVS

0‑5 against Arouca, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market

Raul Steffens wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at AVS

Diego Duarte 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.

Transfer targets

Portimonense tell AVS: Tiago Mamede 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.

Squad

Zé Leite 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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at AVS

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad

Gabriel Novaes is a square peg at AVS

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

Rodrigo Silva answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑5, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

A long afternoon for Raul Steffens

Beaten 5 times, with 2 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

In brief