The Maritimo Chronicle
Market4 Jan 2027
Adrián Butzke hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Maritimo can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Both of them Bryan Limbombe's — 8.92
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.92, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The season belongs to Maxime Dominguez
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Maritimo have had the benefit of it.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Bob Omoregbe
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Maritimo have done the hard part with Torreense, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Raphael Guzzo 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 Maritimo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Door shut on Pavel Meleshin
Maritimo asked and Spartak Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Adrián Butzke
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Paulo Henrique 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Late, late show earns Maritimo a point
Minute 94, against Leixões, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Samuel Bamba
- Squad Bryan Limbombe is carrying Maritimo
- Match Bryan Limbombe rescues a point for Maritimo