Pité

Central Midfielder - Chaves
12 Dec 2026
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Marked for Pité

9 Edition

The Chaves Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Sep 2026

João Valido keeps Chaves in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match26 Sep 2026

The wait goes on for Chaves

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Chaves

João Valido 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 dugout28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Pedro Tavares

“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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Chaves training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. André Rodrigues 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Chaves are still strangers to each other

17 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nothing got past David Moreira

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Pedro Goncalves chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Ouattara Moudjatovic

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Chaves Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Ouattara Moudjatovic 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. Ouattara Moudjatovic is living that version at Chaves, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Bruno Rodrigues

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

No thanks: Juan Muriel rejects the move

Chaves had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at La Equidad, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Chaves

João Valido and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Pité is a square peg at Chaves

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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Chaves and Ouattara Moudjatovic are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

A loan move for David Moreira is in the works

Chaves have made the call to Sporting CP. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Half-satisfied: Pedro Goncalves on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

No investment in the facilities at Chaves

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

In brief

2 Edition

The Chaves Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Chaves turn down Estoril Praia for João Teixeira

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Pité arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Pité has, at Chaves, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Juan Muriel due for a Chaves medical

Everything agreed with La Equidad, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Bruno Rodrigues stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bruno Rodrigues and Chaves agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Chaves

João Valido 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Chaves sell Mamadou Tounkara for $730.0K

Mamadou Tounkara has left for Famalicao in a $730.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Chaves make their move for Diogo Costa

$68.0K on the table at Gil Vicente. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Bruno Rodrigues 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Lucas Dias joins the Chaves first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lucas Dias is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief