21 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process
16 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Henrique Pereira

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Miguel Pereira is carrying Feirense

15 goals and a season average of 7.36. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Tempers go at Feirense

Miguel Pereira 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 Feirense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Cáceres 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.

Match

Feirense see off Oliveirense

Three points for Feirense, 3‑1 the final word against Oliveirense in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

One of those days for Miguel Pereira

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Mateo Cáceres

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Feirense told Mateo Cáceres something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Feirense are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Simão Bertelli

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Miguel Pereira scores twice — 9.00

Two goals and a mark of 9.00 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout

Luisinho keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Feirense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Miguel Pereira is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.32 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Tempers go at Feirense

Frederico Venâncio 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

Pedro Ferreira 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.

Match

Miguel Pereira sends Feirense past Portimonense

It finished 2‑0, and it was Miguel Pereira’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Feirense.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Simão Bertelli

“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.

Market

Feirense promote Joao Correia from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joao Correia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Feirense promote Jorge Castro from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Castro has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

14 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Miguel Pereira was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 59. 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.

Match

Feirense march on in the cup

Moreirense are out and Feirense go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

Juan Pablo Vásquez decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

After 8 games, Feirense finally taste it again

The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Porto B; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Squad

Words exchanged at Feirense

Frederico Venâncio 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.

Squad

Words at Feirense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Ferreira 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.

Match

The goals have deserted Feirense

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Feirense can tell you which week it ends in.

Match

Feirense come up short against Porto B

Porto B left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Tiago Silva gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

13 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Henrique Pereira

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Feirense

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

A falling-out at Feirense

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

Squad

Mateo Cáceres 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 dugout

Simão Bertelli 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.

The dugout

Simão Bertelli knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Feirense, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Lucas Mendes was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Feirense dressing room was either.

Match

Point won or two lost for Feirense?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Farense? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Looking ahead

Francisco Meixedo faces his old club

Porto B next, and one man in the Feirense dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

12 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Vintage João Pedro — 8.10

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.10, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Real improvement from Guilherme Santos at Feirense

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Guilherme Santos is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Frederico Venâncio 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 Feirense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Feirense

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Mateo Cáceres 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.

Match

Feirense get the job done against Sporting CP B

A 1‑0 win over Sporting CP B, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sixtus Ogbuehi

“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.

Squad

Feirense are still strangers to each other

19 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Simão Bertelli

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

11 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Vintage João Pedro — 8.02

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.02, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Tempers go at Feirense

Frederico Venâncio 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

Miguel Pereira is carrying Feirense

12 goals and a season average of 7.29. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Pedro Ferreira 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Simão Bertelli

“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.

Player ratings

Henrique Pereira beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Felgueiras snatch it back from Feirense

A goal on 94 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Match

Honours even between Feirense and Felgueiras

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

The form table has caught Simão Bertelli

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

10 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Vintage Rodrigão — 8.12

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.12, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Words exchanged at Feirense

Frederico Venâncio 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.

Squad

The step up is real for Luisinho

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Words at Feirense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Cáceres 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.

Match

Feirense find a way past Maritimo

Maritimo made Feirense work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Miguel Pereira

11 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Rodrigo Martins runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Miguel Pereira was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.10. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kirill Klimov

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

In brief

9 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Miguel Pereira leads the rout of Vizela

3‑0, and Miguel Pereira took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Feirense tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

Miguel Pereira takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

A falling-out at Feirense

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

Squad

The step up is real for Kaiquy

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Player ratings

One of those days for Miguel Pereira

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.71, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

A row about effort at Feirense

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

The terraces

One of their own: Gui Meira

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Henrique Pereira beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Simão Bertelli 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

8 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Henrique Pereira beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 38. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Frederico Venâncio 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 Feirense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Guilherme Santos

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

A row about effort at Feirense

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Henrique Martins

“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.

Squad

Feirense are still strangers to each other

18 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Simão Bertelli

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Lucas Mendes on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Miguel Pereira

7 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief

  • Match Point won or two lost for Feirense?
  • The dugout No place in the plan for Kirill Klimov
  • Player ratings Luan shuts the door
7 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Miguel Pereira scores twice — 8.89

Two goals and a mark of 8.89 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

João Pedro, 33, rolls back the years — 7.96

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.96 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Tempers go at Feirense

Frederico Venâncio 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 Feirense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Ferreira 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.

Transfer targets

Feirense rebuffed over Wallace Yan

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

The dugout

Francisco Meixedo gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Felipe Rodrigues steps up from the Feirense academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Felipe Rodrigues 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

Feirense promote Henrique Carvalho from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Henrique Carvalho has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

Torreense snatch it back from Feirense

A goal on 94 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

In brief

6 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Francisco Meixedo stands alone

12 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 28 signed and 13 gone

That is the business done at Feirense 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Henrique Pereira

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Feirense

Simão Bertelli 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

Real improvement from Luisinho at Feirense

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luisinho is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

A bad afternoon for Feirense against Penafiel

1‑3 to Penafiel, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Transfer targets

Feirense rebuffed over Michalis Kosidis

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

Player ratings

Miguel Pereira was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.07. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kirill Klimov

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

In brief

5 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Francisco Meixedo attracts admirers

The name of Francisco Meixedo has come up in conversations Feirense were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Milton Delgado rejects the move

Feirense had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Boca Juniors, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at Feirense

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

Squad

Words at Feirense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Ferreira 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.

Match

Rodrigão sends Feirense past Chaves

It finished 3‑1, and it was Rodrigão’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Feirense.

Transfer targets

Olimpia tell Feirense: Imanol Enríquez 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

Henrique Pereira was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.32. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

One of those days for Rodrigo Martins

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Wallace Yan is in the works

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

In brief

4 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Martin Ádám turns down Feirense

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Thauan Lara

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

Squad

Frederico Venâncio 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 Feirense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Feirense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Ferreira 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.

Match

Feirense rescue it on 91 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 91. Benfica B had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Miguel Pereira

A mark of 7.98, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

16 new faces, and Feirense are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Transfer targets

Feirense ask about Michalis Kosidis

A loan enquiry to Panathinaikos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Feirense try to borrow Kauã Elias

Shakhtar 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

3 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Francisco Meixedo

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Feirense say no — this time

The offer from Santa Clara for Francisco Meixedo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

3 goals for Miguel Pereira

The match ball belongs to Miguel Pereira, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

Gui Meira, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.86

A mark of 7.86 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.

Transfer targets

Lautaro Di Lollo will not be coming to Feirense

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

Squad

Tempers go at Feirense

Frederico Venâncio 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.

Transfer targets

Benfica tell Feirense: João Capucho 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

A masterclass from Miguel Pereira

Marked 9.51 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Feirense rescue it on 93 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Leiria had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

In brief

2 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Simão Bertelli arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Simão Bertelli has, at Feirense, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

No thanks: António Ribeiro rejects the move

Feirense had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Porto, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Feirense walk away from Madi Queta

$930.0K was the most the club would pay and Penafiel were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

A falling-out at Feirense

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

Market

As if he never left: André Rodrigues returns

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

Squad

A row about effort at Feirense

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

Transfer targets

Napoli tell Feirense: Dinis 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Francisco Meixedo

“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.

Market

Feirense promote Leonardo Sousa from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Leonardo Sousa has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

1 Edition

The Feirense Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Pedro Ferreira would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Pedro Ferreira is living that version at Feirense, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

An offer of $540.0K for Madi Queta

Feirense have gone to Penafiel 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Feirense

Francisco Meixedo 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

Kirill Klimov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kirill Klimov and Feirense agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Bragantino tell Feirense: Wallace Yan 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

Pedro Ferreira is a square peg at Feirense

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

Feirense and Pedro Ferreira are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Transfer targets

Feirense ask about António Ribeiro

A loan enquiry to Porto: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Dinis Rodrigues is in the works

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

In brief