FC Porto call up nine Olival gems and Eirik Granaas for pre-season | OneFootball

Less than a week remains until the start of FC Porto’s pre-season and, alongside the more experienced players, around ten youngsters have been instructed to report to the Jorge Costa Training Centre next Wednesday. Nine talents developed at Olival and Eirik Granaas, a Norwegian just 16 years old who was unveiled as a new signing last week, will have the chance to impress Francesco Farioli in this first phase of preparations, with the possibility that some of them will then travel with the team to the training camp at St George’s Park, the training centre of the English Football Association.

In addition to the Norwegian signing, Yoan Pereira, Luís Gomes, Tiago Silva, Bernardo Lima, Mateus Mide, João Teixeira, André Miranda, Duarte Cunha and Eduardo Ferreira will begin preparations with the first team squad, although for most of them this is simply a continuation of what already happened in 2025/26, a season in which they were called up several times to work under Farioli. Tiago Silva, Bernardo Lima and André Miranda, moreover, have already played minutes for the first team and were part of the group that won the national title.

Now, the aim is to turn those occasional call-ups into regular appearances, with the first goal being to secure a place in the group after the first cut, which should happen before the trip to England for the training camp scheduled between 13 and 18 July.

Also worth highlighting is Tcherno Jamanca, the under-17s’ top scorer, who could also be called up to work with the first team. That is due to the potential he has already shown and also to the need to strengthen a group of strikers that, for now, will not include Samu.

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