Manuel Baldé

Goalkeeper - Vizela
23 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Manuel Baldé

8 Edition

The Vizela Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Miguel Tavares out for 132 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vizela will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at Vizela

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

Transfer targets

Vizela rebuffed over Dro

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris Saint-Germain have kept their man, and Vizela go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Antonio Gomis

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Steven Baseya

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Matías Lacava knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Matías Lacava trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Pedro Pereira on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Pedro Pereira after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Manuel Baldé dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Vizela Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Miguel Pires runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ismaël Diallo 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Nahuel da Silva

Vizela asked and Montevideo City Torque said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

One of our own: Rui Simoes joins the Vizela first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rui Simoes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Steven Baseya in a row with a teammate

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yann Kitala

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yann Kitala, and the manager let it.

Market

Still no ink between Vizela and Yann Kitala

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vizela, another week without a signature from Yann Kitala.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Pedro Pereira chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Player ratings

Joaquín Freitas keeps on missing

Shots: 12, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

3 Edition

The Vizela Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Miguel Tavares beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Manuel Baldé gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Manuel Baldé has just signed for Vizela, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Joaquín Freitas

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Vizela have done the hard part with Flamengo, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Zaidu Sanusi will not be coming to Vizela

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Porto is saying, and nobody at Vizela is enjoying the guessing.

Market

Business is business: Angel Bastunov goes

Farense paid $1.3M and Vizela took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Words exchanged at Vizela

Antonio Gomis 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.

Market

As if he never left: Manuel Baldé returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Manuel Baldé is a Vizela player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad

A row about effort at Vizela

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ismaël Diallo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Benfica B take the points off Vizela

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief