Mailson

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Tombense
2 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Mailson

21 Edition

The Tombense Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Salomão breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

$180.0K settles it between the clubs for Enzo

Fluminense have accepted the money. What Tombense do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

Reifit 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 Tombense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

No deal for Zé Phelipe at that price

Tombense offered $73.0K; Atlético Mineiro said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words at Tombense training over how hard people work

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

Squad

The formation has left Mailson behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Tombense will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

  • The dugout João Vitor gets picked when it counts
  • Loan watch 3 goals on loan for Kleiton Pego
  • The dugout Borges knocks on the manager’s door
  • The dugout Axel keeps his manager's vote
Back issues
20 Edition

The Chapecoense Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Up they go: Chapecoense promoted

Confirmed, mathematical, and a town awake all night. Whatever else the season contained, it finishes a division higher than it started.

The terraces

Chapecoense sell a favourite for $5.5M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Perotti was one of the reasons people came, and $5.5M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Chapecoense sell Perotti for $5.5M

Perotti has left for Remo in a $5.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Boardroom

Mailson signs for CRB while still at Chapecoense

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mailson has agreed terms with CRB for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Tempers go at Chapecoense

Djalma 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.

Market

Mailson moves on

Tombense pay $330.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Business is business: Cacá goes

Iguatu paid $56.0K and Chapecoense took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Flamengo tell Chapecoense: Jorge Carrascal is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

David signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” David and Chapecoense agree another 5 years.

In brief

20 Edition

The Tombense Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Salomão breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Tombense sink to position 19

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Boardroom

Tombense go back to the board over Samuel Amaral

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $350.4K — a club that wants Samuel Amaral enough to be asked twice.

Market

Mailson arrives at Tombense in a $330.0K statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Tombense have paid $330.0K for Mailson, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Transfer targets

Tombense bid $290.0K for Samuel Amaral

The offer went to Goianésia 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Tombense

Reifit and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Tombense bid $47.0K for Zé Phelipe

The offer went to Atlético Mineiro 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.

Squad

Petterson 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.

Market

A long bet from Tombense on Kaique Kenji

He is 20, and nobody at Tombense signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

19 Edition

The Chapecoense Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

América Mineiro come back empty-handed

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

Market

Terms done: Mailson is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Tombense waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Chapecoense is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

Tempers go at Chapecoense

Yannick Bolasie 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.

Transfer targets

Botafogo-SP tell Chapecoense: Ericson is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Chapecoense

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Djalma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Neto Pessoa wants European nights

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.

Match

Chapecoense find a way past Vila Nova

Vila Nova made Chapecoense work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market

No place for Bruno Leonardo in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Bruno Leonardo has his answer from Chapecoense; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Match

The half-term report on Chapecoense

Position 4, 32 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

In brief

  • Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Perotti
  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Camilo
  • Squad Djalma makes the team of the month
19 Edition

The Tombense Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Salomão breaks a bone — 36 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Danielzinho

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Axel

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Transfer targets

Tombense rebuffed over Vinícius Mingotti

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Operário Ferroviário have kept their man, and Tombense go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Tombense make their move for Kaique Kenji

$1.7M on the table at Cruzeiro. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Mailson due for a Tombense medical

Everything agreed with Chapecoense, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Axel stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Axel and Tombense agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tombense

Reifit 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.

Match

Halfway: Tombense sit in position 19

13 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

In brief