49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Felgueiras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Felgueiras will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Kaio Mendes 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Braga have kept their man, and Felgueiras go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Didi 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.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Felgueiras, another week without a signature from Luiz Otávio.
In brief
The dugoutMidana Sambú knocks on the manager's door
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Felipe Scheibig commits to Felgueiras for another 4 years.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Felgueiras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michel Costa 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Felgueiras, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Beaten 1‑4 by Académico de Viseu, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Diego Rodrigues, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.29
A mark of 8.29 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Léo Teixeira 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.
Position 15, 18 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Felgueiras dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Renato Santos 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑4 Rodrigo Costa left the room before anybody could ask which.
44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Felgueiras lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Felgueiras has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Felgueiras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaio Mendes 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Felgueiras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The words a physio says slowly. 88 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Arouca go through and Felgueiras go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Léo Teixeira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kaio Mendes 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.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Felgueiras are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
102 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Felgueiras lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 26 signed and 23 gone
That is the business done at Felgueiras until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sabadell is saying, and nobody at Felgueiras is enjoying the guessing.
Diego Rodrigues 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kaio Mendes was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Felgueiras. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
The dugoutRenato Santos knocks on the manager’s door