Grígor

Central Defender - Oeste
19 Sep 2038
Sunday
Process

Marked for Grígor

621 Edition

The Oeste Herald

21 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Oeste are in real trouble now

Position 11, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Ilja Kuptsov 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 Oeste can pretend not to have heard.

Match

The wait goes on for Oeste

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Matías Funes 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 Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Rodrigo Guth 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

The manager makes an example of Ilja Kuptsov

“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.

Player ratings

Juan José Rey in the eights

A performance of 8.29 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Oeste share the spoils with Ceará

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

Squad

Oeste pick somebody else ahead of Grígor

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
613 Edition

The Oeste Herald

26 Apr 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Oeste leave it late against Bahia

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and Bahia spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Player ratings

Both of them Henrique Aguiar's — 8.71

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.71, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Lenin 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 Oeste can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Matías Funes 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 Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Rodrigo Guth 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

Oeste find a way past Bahia

Bahia made Oeste work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Juan José Rey

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.42, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Grígor

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Juninho

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

611 Edition

The Oeste Herald

12 Apr 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Oeste has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market

Enrique Céspedes 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 Oeste can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Matías Funes 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 Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

605 Edition

The Oeste Herald

1 Mar 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Paulo Ribeiro damages knee ligaments — 21 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.

Market

Juan José Rey asks to leave Oeste

“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

Grígor: 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.” Oeste have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief