The Maritimo Chronicle
Squad3 Aug 2026
Maxime Dominguez signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Maxime Dominguez and Maritimo agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Maritimo
Maxime Dominguez 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Raphael Guzzo 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Maritimo may not be able to give Igor Julião what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Igor Julião wants continental football; whether Maritimo can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Enrique Peña Zauner wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Maritimo can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Maritimo has picked up the phone to Maxime Dominguez
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.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Maritimo and Adrián Butzke
- Transfer targets A loan move for Pedro Balotelli is in the works
- Market No place for Sidney Osei in the plan
- The dugout Pedro Silva asks for a word with the manager