• Benfica
• Primeira Liga,
• Sporting,
• FC Porto,
• Vitória de Guimarães,
• Danilo Pereira
• Felipe Anderson
• Marko Grujic
• Malang Sarr
• Jean-Clair Todibo

After a summer unlike any other within the footballing spectrum, a chorus of whispers and rumours were at last silenced by the closure of the transfer window.

In typical fashion, movement within Portuguese shores proved to be as frequent as ever, despite expectations of a more muted pandemic-induced showing, with all three of the nation’s elite, among others, making readjustments to their squads on deadline day. Keeping you up-to-date with the ins-and-outs, PortuGOAL brings you all of the major deals marking a frenetic day of negotiations in the Primeira Liga.

The last Liga NOS round before the international break saw no shortage of drama as defending champions Porto were stunned on their own turf in losing to Marítimo. Benfica profited but were made to work in overcoming newly-promoted Farense.

Sporting continued their good belated start with another win and clean sheet against Portimonense, while Farense’s fellow newcomers Nacional stayed unbeaten after drawing with Belenenses SAD.

One of the other surprises this season has been Braga’s false start, the side finding themselves at the wrong end of the table after consecutive defeats. They bounced back this weekend though as PortuGOAL Figure of the Week Galeno inspired them to a thumping victory over Tondela.

• Benfica
• Maritimo
• Tondela
• Sporting,
• FC Porto,
• Sporting de Braga,
• Farense
• Haris Seferovic
• Portimonense
• Galeno
• Nuno Mendes
• Nanu
• Amir

Benfica were made to work for a three-point advantage over FC Porto in the league table after the latter fell to a 3-2 defeat at home to Marítimo, enabling the Eagles to top the table with an identical scoreline against Farense at the Estádio da Luz, this Sunday.

Made to chase the game at the Estádio do Dragão, a brace from Rodrigo Pinho, heroics from Amir between the sticks and a killer blow from Nanu on the counter condemned Porto to their first defeat of the season, passing the baton onto Benfica against newly-promoted Farense.

Jorge Jesus’ men, with the game level, turned the screw in the final ten minutes courtesy of a Haris Seferovic double, maintaining their 100% record in the Primeira Liga and taking them two points clear at the top.

Sporting, with a game in hand, were able to do the same in their visit to Portimão, winning 2-0, meanwhile there was also a first triumph of the season for Carlos Carvalhal’s Sporting de Braga, who took Tondela apart with a 4-0 thrashing, composed in the first half of the encounter. PortuGOAL has more from the weekend.

André Villas-Boas has repeated his desire to become president of FC Porto, but this time the Marseille coach has identified the next elections as a possible chance for his candidacy.

A native of Porto and a lifelong fan of the club, Villas-Boas began working for the Dragons as a teenager before later coaching the first team to a trophy-laden season in 2010-11. Since leaving for Chelsea following the campaign, Villas-Boas has worked in several countries but has never hidden his desire to return home.