The São Paulo Sentinel
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for São Paulo
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around São Paulo are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
26 days out for Doido after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. São Paulo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Orlando Neto has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around São Paulo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match12 Sep 2026
São Paulo cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Aurélio Buta 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
Fábio Matheus 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 São Paulo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Marlon Douglas gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Mayke
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Renato Pacheco was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the São Paulo dressing room was either.
In brief
- Player ratings Clayson beats them one at a time
- Match Point won or two lost for São Paulo?
- Looking ahead A reunion for Marcelo Benevenuto