The Rio Ave Post
Squad8 Oct 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dailon Livramento
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rio Ave lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings8 Oct 2035
Vintage Niklas Lang — 8.27
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.27, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market8 Oct 2035
Rudi Almeida has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rio Ave they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market8 Oct 2035
Joao Monteiro asks to leave Rio Ave
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom8 Oct 2035
Ángel Peñaranda signs for Belenenses while still at Rio Ave
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ángel Peñaranda has agreed terms with Belenenses for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad8 Oct 2035
A falling-out at Rio Ave
Sotiris Alexandropoulos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Oct 2035
Gabriel Veron 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.
Boardroom8 Oct 2035
Rio Ave beat the market to Anthony Matheus from Maritimo
Maritimo will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Anthony Matheus has pre-agreed a move to Rio Ave, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Match6 Oct 2035
Rio Ave see off Varzim
Three points for Rio Ave, 2‑0 the final word against Varzim in a contest settled by the finer margins.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Martim Ribeiro
- The dugout No hiding place for Ruan Victor
- Player ratings Dom Ballard beats them one at a time