FC Porto: Xeyrius Williams certain to return, Bropleh may too | OneFootball

Despite winning the Betclic League again ten years later, FC Porto do not want to go into the 2026/27 season living off the success achieved in the previous campaign. The Dragons are therefore continuing to make deep changes to the squad that will be under Fernando Sá’s command.

Porto also do not want to leave their moves in the international market until the end of the summer, especially as they will be playing in the Champions League.

After securing the signing of Angolan player Childe Dundão, the Dragons have also wrapped up the arrival of forward Xeyrius Williams and are negotiating the signing of American point guard Thomas Bropleh. Besides their nationality, the two players have in common the fact that they have both already played for FC Porto.

Xeyrius Williams is returning to the club after wearing the Porto shirt in 2024/25. During that spell, he averaged 12.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, while also helping the team win the Portuguese Cup and the Super Cup.

After that experience, the player moved to Hong Kong, where he played for the Tycoon in the country’s top division. Now 29 years old and standing 2.06 metres tall, Williams is returning to Europe, where he has previously played in Hungary for Kormend and Jaszberenyi, in Greece for Aris Thessaloniki, in Germany for Rasta Vechta, and in Poland for Dabrowa Górnicza. He also spent one season in Israel with Hapoel Haifa.

Thomas Bropleh when he played for the Dragons. Photograph: A BOLA

Thomas Bropleh, meanwhile, is 34 years old and 1.96 metres tall, and played for FC Porto longer ago. The American was at the club in 2016/17, a season in which he averaged 13.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists before leaving Invicta and finishing that campaign with Spain’s Río Breogán.

The following season, Bropleh played for Denain Voltaire in France, and in 2025/26 he turned out for Romania’s CSM Oradea. However, over the six seasons between those two spells, he built much of his career in Spain, where he played for clubs such as Real Betis, San Agustín, Granada and Lleida.

FC Porto are expected to keep captain Miguel Queiroz, Vlad Voytso, Gonçalo Delgado, João Guerreiro, Tanner Omlid and Corey Allen in the squad. In addition to Childe Dundão, Porto have also signed André Bessa from Oliveirense.

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