Artur

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Marked for Artur

5 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Sport Recife

Robert Arboleda 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Artur

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artur, and the manager let it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Robert Arboleda 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 Sport Recife, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Paulinho

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match12 Aug 2026

Sport Recife march on in the cup

Ceará are out and Sport Recife go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match12 Aug 2026

Sport Recife win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 123th minute. Ceará will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Match15 Aug 2026

Artur breaks Juventude hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Artur scored in the 86th minute, Juventude had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Sport Recife took the lot.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Ryan Francisco at 19 — 7.79

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ryan Francisco did not need any: 7.79, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market17 Aug 2026

Sport Recife say no — this time

The offer from Heracles for Ryan Francisco was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Rafael Toloi goes up and wins it — 7.46

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.46 for the rest of it.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Jonathan Calleri 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 Sport Recife this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Artur 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Galatasaray come back empty-handed

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Marcos Antonio stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcos Antonio and Sport Recife agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Jonathan Calleri 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 Sport Recife this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market10 Aug 2026

Luciano raises the bar for Sport Recife

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Sport Recife heard it as anything else.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Artur 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Gustavo Santana 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

24 months and counting on Jonathan Calleri

Still no offer on the table, and Jonathan Calleri’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Match8 Aug 2026

Sport Recife share the spoils with Santos

A 1‑1 draw with Santos leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market10 Aug 2026

Cédric Soares told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Cédric Soares has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Sport Recife.

In brief