The Atlético Mineiro Gazette
Market3 Aug 2026
Gustavo Scarpa raises the bar for Atlético Mineiro
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Atlético Mineiro heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Everson signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Everson and Atlético Mineiro agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Atlético Mineiro
Gustavo Scarpa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Atlético Mineiro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renan Lodi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match1 Aug 2026
Atlético Mineiro find a way past Corinthians
Corinthians made Atlético Mineiro work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match1 Aug 2026
Corinthians blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Corinthians tried to reorganise, Atlético Mineiro did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Mateo Cassierra was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.16. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and Atlético Mineiro are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Tomás Cuello was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
- The dugout A satisfied Rodrigo Amaral
- The dugout Renan Lodi knocks on the manager's door
- Market The clock runs on Igor Gomes's contract