Estrela da Amadora U20

5 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process
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The Estrela da Amadora Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Abraham Marcus

Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Alonso Martínez

Estrela da Amadora and New York City have settled on $9.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Terms done: David Grilo is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Nacional waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Estrela da Amadora is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings

René Mitongo, 18, steals the show — 7.81

Marked 7.81 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Diogo Pinto hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Estrela da Amadora can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Vizela tell Estrela da Amadora: Angel Bastunov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Tempers go at Estrela da Amadora

Renan Ribeiro 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.

Squad

Luan Patrick 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to René Mitongo

At 18 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.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Estrela da Amadora Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Estrela da Amadora taken apart

1‑4 to Porto, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Transfer targets

An offer of $8.9M for Alonso Martínez

Estrela da Amadora have gone to New York City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Estoril Praia tell Estrela da Amadora: Yanis Begraoui is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Player ratings

Lovro Zvonarek, 21, steals the show — 8.06

Marked 8.06 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Renan Ribeiro keeps Estrela da Amadora in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Alisson Souza puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Estrela da Amadora, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Estrela da Amadora

Léo Linck 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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Bruno Rodrigues at that price

Estrela da Amadora offered $150.0K; Chaves said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words at Estrela da Amadora training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renan Ribeiro 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Estrela da Amadora Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Door shut on Sorriso

Estrela da Amadora asked and Famalicao said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Imanol Enríquez turns down Estrela da Amadora

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Olimpia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

A falling-out at Estrela da Amadora

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

Transfer targets

No deal for António Ribeiro at that price

Estrela da Amadora offered $200.0K; Porto said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Player ratings

Abraham Marcus beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Estrela da Amadora come up short against Gil Vicente

Gil Vicente left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Appearance number 100 for Jeremy Arévalo

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kevin Höög Jansson

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

The dugout

Rui Moreira: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

2 Edition

The Estrela da Amadora Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Estrela da Amadora bid $35.6M for Axel Tielemans

The offer went to KV Oostende this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Chaves tell Estrela da Amadora: Bruno Rodrigues is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

Imanol Enríquez due for a Estrela da Amadora medical

Everything agreed with Olimpia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Jay Enem turns down Estrela da Amadora

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Bologna keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Abraham Marcus signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abraham Marcus and Estrela da Amadora agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Estrela da Amadora

Renan Ribeiro 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.

Squad

Words at Estrela da Amadora training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luan Patrick 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.

Market

Luis Fonseca steps up from the Estrela da Amadora academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Fonseca has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Lucas Fonseca steps up from the Estrela da Amadora academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lucas Fonseca has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

1 Edition

The Estrela da Amadora Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Luan Patrick has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Estrela da Amadora can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Renan Ribeiro stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Renan Ribeiro and Estrela da Amadora agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Léo Linck 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 Estrela da Amadora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Estrela da Amadora

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

Market

Still no ink between Estrela da Amadora and Renan Ribeiro

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Estrela da Amadora, another week without a signature from Renan Ribeiro.

Market

Nobody at Estrela da Amadora has picked up the phone to Joan Jordán

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Estrela da Amadora

14 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Imanol Enríquez is in the works

Estrela da Amadora have made the call to Olimpia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Estrela da Amadora try to borrow Jay Enem

Bologna have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief