The Goiânia Post
Market4 Jan 2027
Luiz Fernandes 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 Goiânia can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Jan 2027
Capital come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Goiânia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Italo due for a Goiânia medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Henrique Cunha at Goiânia
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Henrique Cunha is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad4 Jan 2027
David da Hora 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 Goiânia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Lucca needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Goiânia know which stage they are at.
Market4 Jan 2027
A stepping stone, not a home, for Jorge Akamine
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Goiânia were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Market4 Jan 2027
A long bet from Goiânia on Rafael Porfírio
He is 20, and nobody at Goiânia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Jorge Akamine stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jorge Akamine and Goiânia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Gabriel Souza
- The dugout When it matters, Tiago Santos plays
- The dugout César Alves asks for a word with the manager