Alef

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4 Aug 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Alef

23 Edition

The Inter de Limeira Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Juan Pablo turns Tocantinópolis down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad

The season belongs to Frazan

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Inter de Limeira have had the benefit of it.

Market

Alef hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter de Limeira can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Inter de Limeira turn down Águia de Marabá for Thomaz

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Pellegrin turns down Inter de Limeira

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Corinthians keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Ronald 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 Inter de Limeira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

An offer of $13.0K for Thomazella

Inter de Limeira have gone to Mirassol with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Inter de Limeira walk away from Caio Araújo

$52.0K was the most the club would pay and Santos were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

Criciúma tell Inter de Limeira: José Colmán is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The Inter de Limeira Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Terms done: Marco Antônio is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Coritiba waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Inter de Limeira is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Ponte Preta come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Inter de Limeira did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Alef puts it in writing

“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 Inter de Limeira, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Inter de Limeira

Nathan Palafoz was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Novorizontino join the queue for Bochecha

Add another name to the list: Novorizontino have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Bochecha. The answer from Inter de Limeira has not changed — yet.

Squad

A row about effort at Inter de Limeira

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudinho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

$1.2M on the table at Inter de Limeira

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Keny Arroyo is in the works

Inter de Limeira have made the call to Cruzeiro. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Inter de Limeira try to borrow Kauã Moraes

Cruzeiro have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief