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The price table of predestination

Dia de Jogo — jornal desportivo30 August 2026 at 09:16

The enigmatic phrase "The price table of predestination" serves as the title to this piece about a situation in Portuguese football.

Rui Borges emerges as the central figure, having established a symbolic price for the failed passes of Fábio Gonçalves.

Fábio Gonçalves is the player whose performance is the subject of this ironic reference, apparently marked by passing errors during a match.

The expression "most expensive word in Portuguese football" completes the narrative, suggesting that Rui Borges offered Gonçalves free of charge an expression of high value in the vocabulary of national sport.

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