Gabriel Veron returns to FC Porto, training away from the first team | OneFootball

Gabriel Veron reappeared this Saturday at the Jorge Costa Training and Sports Development Center, in Olival, following the end of a loan spell of about half a year at Juventude, a club that was unable to avoid relegation to the second division of Brazilian football.

According to the newspaper O Jogo, already this Sunday the forward was made to train separately from the main squad, led by the Italian coach Francesco Farioli, with no prospect, for now, of integration into the team, despite having a contract until June 2027.

The 23-year-old player will work with a coach provided by the blue and white structure itself. In the best-case scenario, he could be an option for the B team, but all indications are that, in the short term, his path will remain away from Estádio do Dragão.

The administration led by André Villas-Boas is active in the winter transfer market, looking for solutions for the wings, but this should not mean a new opportunity for the footballer from Assú, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte.

Potential yet to be proven

Trained at Palmeiras – where he stood out under the command of the Portuguese Abel Ferreira – Gabriel Veron joined FC Porto in the summer of 2022 for around ten million euros, with the mission of replacing Luis Díaz, who had left for Liverpool six months earlier for 45 million.

Touted as a great promise of Brazilian football, the player also gained a reputation for being a problematic personality. The promising side was left unproven, while the other led to controversies, including an injury in 2023 suffered while playing on a poor-quality synthetic pitch during holidays, a fact that earned him a fine.

Veron played only one season with FC Porto’s main squad. Coached by Sérgio Conceição, he took part in 26 official matches in 2022/23, scoring one goal (in the 0-6 thrashing of Anadia, in the third round of the Portuguese Cup) and providing four assists.

This was followed by three consecutive loan spells. In the first, at Cruzeiro, he regained some physical and competitive form, achieving six goals and two assists in 37 matches; there was even a possibility of a permanent transfer, which did not materialize.

At the start of 2025 he moved to Santos, where he failed to establish himself and was returned after nine games. He then played for Juventude, where he also failed to find continuity and finished without goals in 13 matches played.

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