The Porto Herald
Match2 Aug 2027
Porto up to position 2
78 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Gabri Veiga 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 Porto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Aug 2027
João Tavares is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Victor Froholdt is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Porto know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Alan Varela 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.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Porto release $5.6M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Loan watch2 Aug 2027
Eduardo Ferreira counts the days
“I watch every Porto game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Chaves runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market2 Aug 2027
12 months and counting on Conor Chaplin
Still no offer on the table, and Conor Chaplin’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market2 Aug 2027
The shop window has Stephen Eustáquio in it
Porto have let the market know Stephen Eustáquio can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Market The Martim Fernandes talk will not go away
- Boardroom Porto board back the manager