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The Rio Ave Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Rio Ave turn down Moreirense for Tamble Monteiro

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Nehuén Pérez

Rio Ave asked and Porto 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 targets10 Aug 2026

José Neto due for a Rio Ave medical

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tamble Monteiro stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tamble Monteiro and Rio Ave agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Rio Ave

Ole Pohlmann 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Dario Špikić wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Rio Ave know it.

Market10 Aug 2026

Belenenses watching Ryan Guilherme

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rio Ave have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Hugo Reis joins the Rio Ave first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Rodrigo Neves steps up from the Rio Ave academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rodrigo Neves 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

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The Rio Ave Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Dario Špikić 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Marios Vrousai signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marios Vrousai commits to Rio Ave for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Rio Ave

Tamble Monteiro 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Francisco Petrasso wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Home is on Francisco Petrasso's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Rio Ave are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Marios Vrousai 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.

In brief