“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Boa, and it is not being withdrawn.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alex Ruan has his answer from Santa Cruz; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Juninho wants continental football; whether Nautico can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Boa, another week without a signature from Thiago Sales.
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 2 appearances for Criciuma.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for ABC
Esquerdinha was marked 6.70 and had a hand in 0 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
2 assists, 7.57, and a Atletico Goianiense player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Yuri Tanque is the division's best-marked player — 8.40
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.40 across 2 matches for Criciuma.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Aírton wants continental football; whether Criciuma can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
2 in 2 for Santa Cruz. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
2 goals in 2 appearances for Atletico Goianiense, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Marked 7.25 across it, 13 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. ABC have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for ABC
Esquerdinha was marked 7.25 and had a hand in 13 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
11 assists, 7.28, and a ABC player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Marrony is the division's best-marked player — 7.73
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.73 across 3 matches for Atletico Goianiense.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Nathan wants continental football; whether America Mineiro can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at ABC has been clear about where Wellington Carvalho stands, which is more than many ever get.