Eboué Kouassi

Defensive Midfielder - Leiria
22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Eboué Kouassi

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The Leiria Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Leiria agree $690.0K for João Teixeira

The clubs have shaken hands with Chaves; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Transfer targets

An offer of $3.4M for André Clovis

Leiria have gone to Académico de Viseu with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Words exchanged at Leiria

Juan Muñoz 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.

Squad

Benjamín Ubierna stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Benjamín Ubierna and Leiria agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Henrique Machado steps up from the Leiria academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Henrique Machado has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Hugo Correia steps up from the Leiria academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hugo Correia has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Pedro Pacheco steps up from the Leiria academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pedro Pacheco has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Leiria promote Bernardo Mendes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bernardo Mendes 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.

Squad

Marc Baró 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.

In brief

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The Leiria Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Juan Muñoz signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Juan Muñoz and Leiria agree another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Leiria

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

Squad

Words at Leiria training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Fernández 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.

Transfer targets

Stoke City tell Leiria: Nathan Lowe is not for sale

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.

Market

Nobody at Leiria has picked up the phone to Juan Muñoz

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

9 new faces, and Leiria 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.

In brief