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26 Edition

The Cruzeiro Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad25 Jan 2027

Matheus Pereira 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 Cruzeiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words at Cruzeiro training over how hard people work

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

Squad25 Jan 2027

Luan 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.

Loan watch25 Jan 2027

Ruan Índio has seen enough of Sporting Cristal

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cruzeiro, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Market25 Jan 2027

Siah Jamegan expected to open talks for Zé Lucas

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cruzeiro will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad25 Jan 2027

When it matters, Cássio 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.

In brief

Back issues
25 Edition

The Cruzeiro Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market18 Jan 2027

Cruzeiro sell Kaio Jorge for $22.9M

Kaio Jorge has left for Bayern Munich in a $22.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Luan says Cruzeiro went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

The terraces18 Jan 2027

Cruzeiro sell a favourite for $22.9M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Kaio Jorge was one of the reasons people came, and $22.9M does not replace that by itself.

Market18 Jan 2027

Sporting CP come back empty-handed

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

Squad18 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Cruzeiro

Matheus Pereira 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Praxedes 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

21 Edition

The Cruzeiro Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Dec 2026

A move Miguel Terceros 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. Miguel Terceros is living that version at Cruzeiro, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match19 Dec 2026

9 unbeaten for Cruzeiro

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Cruzeiro did not have in the autumn.

Market21 Dec 2026

Cruzeiro say no — this time

The offer from Mirassol for Keny Arroyo 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.

Market21 Dec 2026

Kaio Jorge 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 Cruzeiro hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Cruzeiro

Fabrício Bruno 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.

Market21 Dec 2026

Cruzeiro plan ahead with Miguel Terceros from Santos

The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Miguel Terceros comes from Santos for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Marquinhos signs a new deal

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

Squad21 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Gabriel Rojas

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

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Gérson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief