The AVS Gazette
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aderllan Santos stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aderllan Santos and AVS agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at AVS
Diego Duarte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
AVS rebuffed over Dimitris Pelkas
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PAOK have kept their man, and AVS go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between AVS and Aderllan Santos
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AVS, another week without a signature from Aderllan Santos.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at AVS has picked up the phone to Raul Steffens
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
Rúben Semedo 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and AVS 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
AVS ask about Seydou Fofana
A loan enquiry to Santa Clara: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Riccardo Pagano is in the works
AVS have made the call to Cesena. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- The dugout Roni knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Andre Green question follows AVS around
- Market André Sousa leaves for nothing