Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Paysandu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
JP Galvão 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 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.
“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 The request is on a desk at Paysandu, and it is not being withdrawn.
The offer from Horizonte for Miguel Angelo 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.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Gustavo Silva wants continental football; whether Paysandu can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Everything agreed with Gimnasia La Plata, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
The fee is $330.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Volta Redonda drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Edílson Júnior 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Paysandu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Silva 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.
Paysandu asked and Vitoria Guimaraes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The offer went to Fluminense 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.
Volta Redonda have gone to Bragantino 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sport Recife have kept their man, and Volta Redonda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
Gabriel Taliari 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.
Fluminense paid $450.0K and Volta Redonda took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Alan has left for Paysandu in a $330.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Volta Redonda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabrício 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.
In brief
BoardroomWages eat 92% of everything Volta Redonda earn
SquadVolta Redonda are still strangers to each other
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Volta Redonda will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
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.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Du Fernandes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volta Redonda the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Patrick 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.
A 1‑1 draw with CRB leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Volta Redonda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan 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.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Lucas Correia after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Volta Redonda will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.