“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vizela, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vizela know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vizela is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vizela have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vizela have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vizela, and both men came out saying it was fine.
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
In brief
The terracesThe press have found their man in Manu Garrido
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Rio Ave defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.