The Oeste Herald
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Oeste
Sérgio Raphael 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Oeste
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Grígor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Caio Hila slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Caio Hila is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A promotion for Ailton
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Ailton has moved up it.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Léo Ceará faces his old club
ABC next, and one man in the Oeste dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Ailton 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 Oeste, and both men came out saying it was fine.