Jefferson

Central Midfielder - Paysandu
26 Sep 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jefferson

55 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

A brace, and João Paulo takes the afternoon — 7.92

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. João Paulo provided it, and the 7.92 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Paysandu

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.

Squad

Márcio Júnior 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

Paysandu see off Ceará

Three points for Paysandu, 2‑0 the final word against Ceará in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Thayllon 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.

Squad

The team sheet said everything about Gabriel Mesquita

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Gabriel Mesquita.

Player ratings

Thayllon runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Edílson Júnior shuts the door

Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Market

Paysandu add cover with Jefferson

It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Jefferson is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.

In brief

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The Persis Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Alexvan Djin breaks a bone — 58 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Alexvan Djin says Persis 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.

Player ratings

Roman Paparyga runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Nobody wants to play Persis right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Match

Persis make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market

Persijap join the queue for Alexvan Djin

Add another name to the list: Persijap have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alexvan Djin. The answer from Persis has not changed — yet.

Squad

Dimitri 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

Tempers go at Persis

Luka Dumančić 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.

Match

Persis find a way past Borneo

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

In brief

27 Edition

The Persis Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Persis

Dimitri 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

Hapoel Kfar Saba watching Septian Bagaskara

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Persis have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at Persis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roman Paparyga 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