Marked for Anthony Carter
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Grêmio keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olympiacos have kept their man, and Vizela go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vizela
Nirley 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Matías Lacava 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Penafiel, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Vizela training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manu Garrido 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
14 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Estoril Praia this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Vizela say no — this time
The offer from Estrela da Amadora for Yann Kitala 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $6.5M — a club that wants Yanis Begraoui enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Vizela have done the hard part with Southampton, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Braga have kept their man, and Vizela go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ricardo Goncalves 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Luis Costa joins the Vizela first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Costa 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
Market3 Aug 2026
Vizela say no — this time
The offer from Osasuna for Antonio Gomis 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.
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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AZ have kept their man, and Vizela go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
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
Farense have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Nick Oyekunle is in the works
Vizela have made the call to Southampton. 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.