Marked for Anthony Carter
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match22 Aug 2026
No mercy from Vizela
Chaves will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Vizela were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Yann Kitala takes the afternoon — 9.67
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yann Kitala provided it, and the 9.67 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Anthony Carter takes the afternoon — 8.93
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Anthony Carter provided it, and the 8.93 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$560.0K settles it between the clubs for Frederick Reuter
Farense have accepted the money. What Vizela do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.3M — a club that wants Vinícius Lopes enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Flamengo keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Vizela asked and Porto said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Vizela
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Henrique was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Back issues
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Triumph
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.85 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$4.0M on the table at Santa Clara. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Vizela asked and Santa Clara said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The deal with Vitoria Guimaraes is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vizela
Antonio Gomis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Anthony Carter’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vizela.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$6.4M on the table at Braga. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
Vizela say no — this time
The offer from Mladost Lucani for Aleksandar Vulić was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Anthony Carter commits to Vizela for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vizela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$100.0K on the table at AVS. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Duarte Sousa joins the Vizela first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Duarte Sousa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexandre Almeida is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fabio Monteiro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Antonio Gomis and Vizela agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vizela
Antonio Gomis 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Vizela
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean-Pierre Rhyner was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Vizela are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Bendegúz Kovács is in the works
Vizela have made the call to AZ. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Anthony Carter knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Anthony Carter trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.