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Marked for Paulinho

7 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Both of them José Bica's — 8.59

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market14 Sep 2026

The Moreirense deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Igor Stefanović reports back to Leixões with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Werton runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match12 Sep 2026

4 matches without a win for Leixões

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Leixões are no longer polite ones.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Werton 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Leixões

Paulinho 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.

The terraces14 Sep 2026

Leixões supporters have found a favourite in José Bica

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. José Bica has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Matheus Costa 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Leixões and Vizela take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Aug 2026

Igor Stefanović 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 The request is on a desk at Leixões, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A move Koen Schilder would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Koen Schilder is living that version at Leixões, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Paulinho 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 Leixões this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Leixões training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Werton 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Koen Schilder signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Koen Schilder commits to Leixões for another 4 years.

Market24 Aug 2026

Leixões buy the years ahead of Koen Schilder

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Match22 Aug 2026

Miguel Sousa rescues a point for Leixões

It needed Miguel Sousa to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Penafiel, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Market24 Aug 2026

Leixões add cover with Owen Foster

It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Owen Foster is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Cláudio Araújo

Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

3 Edition

The Leixões Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

3 academy players handed senior numbers at Leixões

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Match15 Aug 2026

Cláudio Araújo sends Leixões past Chaves

It finished 3‑1, and it was Cláudio Araújo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leixões.

Market17 Aug 2026

Leixões sell Caio Secco for $91.0K

Caio Secco has left for Académico de Viseu in a $91.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Werton 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 Leixões this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Leixões supporters have found a favourite in Werton

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Werton has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market17 Aug 2026

Leixões promote Bruno Machado from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bruno Machado has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market17 Aug 2026

Bernardo Cunha steps up from the Leixões academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bernardo Cunha has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market17 Aug 2026

Leixões promote Goncalo Rodrigues from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Goncalo Rodrigues has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Emanuel Moreira 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.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Rúben Pina
  • Player ratings Ninety minutes of Werton at his very best
  • Squad Paulinho gets it from the manager