Pericles

Defensive Midfielder - Boa
29 May 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Pericles

145 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

7 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Pedro Henrique says Boa went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Thiago Gigena asks to leave Boa

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

8 matches without a win for Boa

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Boa are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Boa

Thiago Gigena 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.

Match

Bahia take the points off Boa

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marcelinho

“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.

Squad

Allyson loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Allyson. Boa will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Player ratings

Lucas Lopes runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Marcelinho

A mark of 5.50 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

  • Market The clock does Pericles’s negotiating for him
  • Boardroom Boa keep producing them
Back issues
141 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Thiago Gigena 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 The request is on a desk at Boa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Boa

Wallace Oliveira 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.

Squad

Allyson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Allyson commits to Boa for another 2 years.

In brief

  • Squad A wage question at Boa
  • Market Still no signature from Pericles
  • Boardroom Boa keep producing them
  • Squad The manager plants his flag on Wallace Oliveira
137 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Allyson 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Marcelinho knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Boa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Still no signature from Pericles

7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Boa could get for him.

In brief

130 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Thiago Gigena 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 Boa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Thiago Gigena 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Pericles asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

128 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Boa

Position 11 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom

Boa spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad

Marcelinho out for 36 days

The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Marcelinho, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Júnior Tavares signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Júnior Tavares commits to Boa for another 2 years.

Squad

Wallace Oliveira 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

$38.5K taken back off the Boa table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

In brief

  • Squad Pedro Henrique has seen what the next man earns
  • Market The market said no: Pericles stays put
  • Boardroom Boa were not finished after all
  • Boardroom The Boa production line keeps running
124 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Boa sink to position 11

8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Thiago Gigena 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 Boa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Criciuma come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Thiago Gigena 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Boa sign Alejandro Rangel, one for the future

Alejandro Rangel is 18, and Boa have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

Boa sign João Fonseca, one for the future

João Fonseca is 17, and Boa have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

123 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Boa give the job to Interim Coach

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Market

Boa turn down Juventude for Júnior Tavares

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

Squad

Pericles says Boa went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Marquinhos Pedroso has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Boa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Ernando stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ernando and Boa agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Boa

Leonardo 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.

In brief

116 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Boa sink to position 11

8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Geovane has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Boa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Ernando 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Gabriel Soares signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gabriel Soares and Boa agree another 1 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Pericles

“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.

Squad

Wallace Oliveira asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

112 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Boa sink to position 11

8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Only the photograph left for João Denoni

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. João Denoni will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Boa the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Leonardo 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • Squad No hiding place for Pericles
  • Squad Fabrício Baiano asks for a word with the manager
  • Squad The manager plants his flag on Ernando
  • Boardroom The Boa production line keeps running
100 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

29 matches without a win for Boa

The run now stands at 29, and the questions being asked around Boa are no longer polite ones.

Match

Boa are in real trouble now

Position 11, 3 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Valsir

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

João Denoni is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Boa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Pericles 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 Boa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Boa

Ernando 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.

Match

Boa come up short against America Mineiro

America Mineiro left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Leonardo

Marked 8.87 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Wallace Oliveira 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.

In brief

98 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Boa

27 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.

Market

Thiago Gigena 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 Boa can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Valsir keeps Boa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Sampaio Correa come back empty-handed

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

Market

Only the photograph left for Jean

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jean will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Boa the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Júnior Tavares 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Leonardo’s goal not enough for Boa

Leonardo scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Atletico Goianiense, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Thiago Gigena

“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.

Player ratings

Leonardo in the eights

A performance of 8.43 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

72 Edition

The Boa Sentinel

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Valsir says Boa went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

João Carlos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Boa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Éverton 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Still no name above the door at Boa

Day 12 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Squad

Boa lose Eduardo

35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

Igor is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Boa has been clear about where Igor stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief