The Santos Chronicle
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Santos
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Álvaro Barreal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Neymar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Willian Arão in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Santos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Rony at his very best
Marked 8.33. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Santos.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of João Schmidt
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match12 Sep 2026
Rony rescues a point for Santos
It needed Rony to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Bragantino, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Willian Arão dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market14 Sep 2026
Enzo Boer leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Enzo Boer leaves Santos the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Player ratings Gabriel Menino spends the afternoon fouling
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Rony