Danilo

Defensive Midfielder - FC Augsburg
20 Apr 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Danilo

38 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The season ends: position 6 for FC Augsburg

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 61 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Squad

Alexis Claude-Maurice 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 FC Augsburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Anton Kade has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether FC Augsburg can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words at FC Augsburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danilo 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.

Player ratings

Arijon Ibrahimović was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

A bad afternoon for FC Augsburg against Mainz 05

0‑1 to Mainz 05, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match

Mainz 05 end the FC Augsburg run at 5

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 5 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Michael Gregoritsch

“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.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Steve Mounié’s exile

11 goals in 23 games at Alanyaspor — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at FC Augsburg updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

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37 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play FC Augsburg right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Samuel Lino runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Víctor Gómez has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether FC Augsburg can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Augsburg

Alexis Claude-Maurice 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

Gaspar is carrying FC Augsburg

13 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Danilo 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.

Match

FC Augsburg see off St. Pauli

Three points for FC Augsburg, 2‑1 the final word against St. Pauli in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

Danilo 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.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for FC Augsburg. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

In brief

  • Player ratings Gaspar was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Player ratings A masterclass from Phillip Tietz
  • The dugout A promise honoured at FC Augsburg
36 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

No mercy from FC Augsburg

Werder Bremen will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. FC Augsburg were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

The dugout

Marius Wolf keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FC Augsburg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Both of them Arijon Ibrahimović's — 8.56

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.56, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

FC Augsburg make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now FC Augsburg have 4 straight wins of it.

Market

Danilo has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether FC Augsburg can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Finn Dahmen 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 FC Augsburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Arijon Ibrahimović

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Words at FC Augsburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Han-Noah Massengo 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Samuel Lino

Marked 8.25 — 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.

In brief

35 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Samuel Lino scores twice — 8.34

Two goals and a mark of 8.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

FC Augsburg make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now FC Augsburg have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Gaspar 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 FC Augsburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Danilo 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.

Match

FC Augsburg see off VfL Wolfsburg

Three points for FC Augsburg, 2‑0 the final word against VfL Wolfsburg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Christian Groß kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

Anton Kade dropped after a run of poor form

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.

Player ratings

Alexis Claude-Maurice beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

No hiding place for Thomas Kastanaras

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

In brief

34 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Samuel Lino takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Lucas Braga 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 FC Augsburg, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Thomas Kastanaras: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Augsburg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at FC Augsburg

Gaspar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Augsburg

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

Match

FC Augsburg get the job done against Union Berlin

A 3‑1 win over Union Berlin, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Gaspar

Marked 8.39 — 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Samuel Lino

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Loan watch

11 goals on loan for Steve Mounié

23 appearances at Alanyaspor and the goals keep coming. FC Augsburg are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

31 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Nediljko Labrović out for 22 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Augsburg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Robin Fellhauer wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Augsburg

Samuel Lino 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

Danilo 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Gaspar

11 goals and a season average of 7.22 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout

Takashi Usami 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 dugout

A promise honoured at FC Augsburg

Something was said to Keven Schlotterbeck and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Michael Gregoritsch dropped after a run of poor form

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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Christian Groß was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the FC Augsburg dressing room was either.

In brief

28 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Nediljko Labrović out for 49 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Augsburg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

12 unbeaten for FC Augsburg

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation FC Augsburg did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Jeffrey Gouweleeuw has been here 11 seasons

429 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Player ratings

Han-Noah Massengo pops up at the right end — 7.94

7.94, 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.

Market

Danilo wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at FC Augsburg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market

So close: Hennes Behrens’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Werder Bremen moved on, Hennes Behrens reports back to FC Augsburg, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Augsburg

Gaspar 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

Words at FC Augsburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danilo 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.

Player ratings

Samuel Lino was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

25 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Danilo moves on

FC Augsburg pay $26.0M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Match

Botafogo are top

61 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $26.0M sale of Danilo

He is going to FC Augsburg, the club has $26.0M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Botafogo turn down Aswan for Kadir Barría

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

Squad

Gabriel Batista 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 Botafogo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Botafogo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur 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.

Loan watch

Rwan Cruz keeps scoring at Ludogorets

23 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

When it matters, Vitinho plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Gabriel Batista linked with a move away

The name of Gabriel Batista keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Botafogo say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

  • Squad Gabriel Batista wants to know why he earns less
  • Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Chris Ramos’s exile
  • The dugout The manager makes Allan a promise
25 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Samuel Lino arrives at FC Augsburg in a $32.4M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. FC Augsburg have paid $32.4M for Samuel Lino, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Market

Víctor Gómez is a FC Augsburg player

The fee is $29.7M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Braga drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market

Danilo is a FC Augsburg player

The fee is $26.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Botafogo drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Transfer targets

FC Augsburg rebuffed over Hugo Souza

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Corinthians have kept their man, and FC Augsburg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Business is business: Uchenna Ogundu goes

Borussia Mönchengladbach paid $6.3M and FC Augsburg took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Match

Still nobody has beaten FC Augsburg

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Augsburg

Alexis Claude-Maurice 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.

The terraces

FC Augsburg spend $32.4M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $32.4M for Samuel Lino, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Augsburg

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

In brief

24 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Paris Saint-Germain tell Botafogo: Marquinhos 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.

Market

Paulinho 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 Botafogo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Artur stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Artur and Botafogo agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Botafogo

Danilo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

The Danilo conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: FC Augsburg will make the call about Danilo this week. Botafogo have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

A row about effort at Botafogo

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

The dugout

A promise honoured for Nahuel Ferraresi

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Botafogo told Nahuel Ferraresi something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

When it matters, Alex Telles plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Artur 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 Botafogo, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

23 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Arthur Cabral leads the rout of Mirassol

3‑0, and Arthur Cabral took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Botafogo tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

Arthur Cabral is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.56 with 22 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Transfer targets

Fluminense tell Botafogo: Martinelli 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.

Market

Edenílson asks to leave Botafogo

“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.

Squad

Alex Telles is named among the best

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. Botafogo will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

FC Augsburg watching Danilo

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Botafogo have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words exchanged at Botafogo

Danilo 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Botafogo

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

The terraces

Botafogo supporters have found a favourite in Álvaro Montoro

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Álvaro Montoro has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

  • Match Botafogo are at home on the road
  • Player ratings Danilo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Player ratings Vitinho was on a different afternoon to everybody else
23 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

An offer of $29.7M for Víctor Gómez

FC Augsburg have gone to Braga 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

FC Augsburg bid $25.0M for Danilo

The offer went to Botafogo this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

An offer of $24.3M for Samuel Lino

FC Augsburg have gone to Flamengo 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.

Match

FC Augsburg win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Borussia Mönchengladbach will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

A brace, and Gaspar takes the afternoon — 8.54

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gaspar provided it, and the 8.54 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

FC Augsburg turn down Werder Bremen for Anton Kade

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

Market

Lucas Braga 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 FC Augsburg can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Gaspar is named among the best

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. FC Augsburg will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

FC Augsburg may not be able to give Robin Fellhauer what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Robin Fellhauer wants continental football; whether FC Augsburg can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

In brief

21 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Botafogo turn down Cruzeiro for Danilo

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

Match

Botafogo are top

55 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Player ratings

Danilo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A row about effort at Botafogo

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

Squad

A falling-out at Botafogo

Rodriguinho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Allan

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

Squad

Júnior Santos is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.29 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Rwan Cruz’s exile

10 goals in 19 games at Ludogorets — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Botafogo updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

Arthur Cabral has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Botafogo 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.

In brief

  • The dugout Botafogo pick somebody else ahead of Allan
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Market The Arthur Cabral story refuses to die
20 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Botafogo lift the trophy

The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.

Squad

Arthur Cabral is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.58 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Transfer targets

Botafogo rebuffed over Negueba

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mirassol have kept their man, and Botafogo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Arthur Cabral is named among the best

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. Botafogo will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Boardroom

Botafogo to lose Rafael Porfírio for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Rafael Porfírio has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Álvaro Montoro signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Álvaro Montoro and Botafogo agree another 5 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Botafogo

Danilo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Arthur Cabral the difference as Botafogo beat Flamengo

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Arthur Cabral. 2‑1 against Flamengo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Arthur Cabral at his very best

Marked 8.50. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Botafogo.

In brief

19 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The small margins put Botafogo out

Out, 0‑1 to Cruzeiro, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market

Flamengo come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets

Flamengo tell Botafogo: Samuel Lino 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.

Market

Rodriguinho arrives at Botafogo in a $3.6M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Botafogo have paid $3.6M for Rodriguinho, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Player ratings

Álvaro Montoro, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.18

A mark of 8.18 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets

Botafogo bid $400.0K for Jair

The offer went to Vasco da Gama this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Words exchanged at Botafogo

Danilo 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Danilo

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Cristian Medina 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

17 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Botafogo cannot stop winning

16 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings

Danilo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Paulinho Boia damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

The view from the top for Botafogo

47 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Match

The run at home goes on for Botafogo

13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Danilo 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 Botafogo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Botafogo find a way past Santos

Santos made Botafogo work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Danilo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Júnior Santos

5 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

In brief

16 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Botafogo right now

15 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Paulinho Boia damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

No mercy from Botafogo

São Paulo will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Botafogo were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Both of them Arthur Cabral's — 9.25

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.25, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Arthur Cabral is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.60 with 20 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Botafogo keep winning on the road

6 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Squad

A falling-out at Botafogo

Danilo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Botafogo

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

Player ratings

Danilo was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.40. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

15 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Botafogo cannot stop winning

14 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

The knee: Paulinho Boia out for 31 days

31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Botafogo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Arthur Cabral leads the rout of Vitória

3‑0, and Arthur Cabral took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Botafogo tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Arthur Cabral scores twice — 9.60

Two goals and a mark of 9.60 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Arthur Cabral

18 goals and a season average of 7.54 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

Botafogo make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Danilo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Danilo commits to Botafogo for another 5 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Botafogo

Danilo 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.

Player ratings

Cristian Medina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

  • The dugout No hiding place for Matheus Martins
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Alex Telles has become a man the manager trusts
14 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Botafogo make it 13 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Botafogo have 13 straight wins of it.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Paulinho Boia

39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Botafogo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Botafogo run riot against Fortaleza

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Danilo's — 8.44

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.44, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Álvaro Montoro, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94

A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Danilo wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Botafogo hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Match

Botafogo are at home on the road

5 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Player ratings

One of those days for Vitinho

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.15, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Words exchanged at Botafogo

Luan Polli 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Botafogo

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Flamengo kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Botafogo will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Player ratings

Júnior Santos scores twice — 8.28

Two goals and a mark of 8.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Alex Telles stays put

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

Squad

Tempers go at Botafogo

Alex Telles 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

Danilo wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Botafogo hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

A move Paulinho Boia would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Paulinho Boia is living that version at Botafogo, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

A row about effort at Botafogo

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

Market

Kadir Barría attracts admirers

The name of Kadir Barría has come up in conversations Botafogo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The dugout

Gabriel Batista 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