The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around CRB people have started saying his name in the past tense.
CRB asked and Dinamo Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Dec 2026
Maceió arrives at CRB in a $4.0M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. CRB have paid $4.0M for Maceió, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Maceió has just signed for CRB, and for once the answer mattered.
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. CRB will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Luiz Phellype 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.
The one award nobody else on the pitch can win goes to Matheus Albino, on 15 clean sheets across the season. Keepers wait a career for a season like it.
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Maceió from Portuguesa for $4.0M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Luiz Phellype 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.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Nobody at CRB will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. CRB know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Luiz Phellype 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Fábio Alemão 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.
Nobody at CRB will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Henri has written the date down.
They sit in position 16 and they will be waiting. Away form is where a season shows its true character, and this side has a point to make about its own.
Rafael Carvalheira 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Fábio Alemão 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for CRB. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Danielzinho trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
7.27, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Luiz Phellype 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.
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about CRB and América Mineiro in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fábio Alemão was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 3‑4 Igor Teixeira left the room before anybody could ask which.
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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Danielzinho trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The match ball belongs to Dadá Belmonte, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Luiz Phellype takes the afternoon — 9.63
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luiz Phellype provided it, and the 9.63 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Danielzinho takes the afternoon — 8.41
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Danielzinho provided it, and the 8.41 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Luiz Phellype 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.
11 goals in one match, Dadá Belmonte on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of CRB and Amazonas.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fábio Alemão 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.