The Market and some issues!
This was our winter market! As you can see some important players went out and we are having some line up issues. About the transfers, Rafa we had no chance. He had that clause, PSG paid the clause and of course he said yes. Florentino Luis already spoke about him, very good deal for us, tbh. Otamendi, he asked to sign for another club at the end of his contract, we tried to convince him, but no chance from him, he wanted to leave. When he signed for Newcastle to go in June, we told Newcastle that we were available to let him go for 925k and there he went. We have some good CBs (Veríssimo, António Silva, Morato and João Victor) so this wasn’t a major problem. To replace Florentino we bought Perrone, to replace Rafa we bought Schjelderup and Giovani! Two amazing talents, that I think will not perform so well this season but I hope next season they will give us some good moments. This was our winter market!
Our problem is here... As you can see, Grimaldo (6-8 months, dear lord), João Mário and Henrique Araujo are out and if we add Rafa, Florentino and Otamendi and also Enzo (he was injured) from our 1st line up we lost 6 players. Is a lot and the team is feeling it. The performances are not the same, we miss Henrique a lot and yes, kinda of a new start (also Perrone is out, on the U20 Argentina, we didn't even have the chance to train with him, yet). It’ll be important to get some good results, despite one or two bad performances, so that the new players can create some good connections and we get our dynamic back again!
Probably some drama from me, but that 2-3 against Porto, 4-2 BVT (H) and Gil Vicente 2-1 (A) got me worried. Let's see what the team can bring us in the next matches!
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