Marked for Walisson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pedro Morisco is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market19 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sebastián Gómez 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Coritiba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matheus Bianqui 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Walisson 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Coritiba
Something was said to Lucas Ronier and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
JP Chermont has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Coritiba 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Coritiba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Joaquín Lavega 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Coritiba are still strangers to each other
12 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rodrigo Gelado is on it.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Sebastián Gómez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Coritiba say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Atlético Goianiense in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Walisson 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.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Coritiba
Sebastián Gómez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market5 Oct 2026
Walisson 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 Coritiba can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Coritiba
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matheus Bianqui was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
JP Chermont is the month’s best young player
At 20 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Coritiba will try not to make too much of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Diogo Batista and Coritiba agree another 4 years.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Paulo Tavares after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Pedro Rangel
“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.