Kayke

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Altos
18 Jan 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Kayke

21 Edition

The Altos Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Araujo

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Altos have done the hard part with Corinthians, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Bruno Silva rejects the move

Altos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Goianésia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Rodrigo Lobão 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

A falling-out at Altos

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

Squad

Altos are still strangers to each other

12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad

No place for Carlos Junior in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Altos are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Altos Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Kayke is a medical away from Altos

The deal with Corinthians is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Bahia rejects the move

Altos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Corinthians, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words at Altos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Lobão 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.

Transfer targets

Horizonte tell Altos: Rafael Farias 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

Pedro Oliveira 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 Altos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

José Lima steps up from the Altos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. José Lima has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Doido joins the Altos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Doido is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Transfer targets

Altos try to borrow Guilherme Aquino

Coritiba have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

Marcelo is a square peg at Altos

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

20 Edition

The Corinthians Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Corinthians book their European place

Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.

Match

Corinthians refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 38 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Kayke has said yes to Altos

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Corinthians have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets

Zenit tell Corinthians: Gustavo Mantuan 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.

Market

Business is business: Memphis Depay goes

Flamengo paid $9.7M and Corinthians took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Hugo Souza honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Corinthians had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Market

Corinthians turn down Deportivo Riestra for Fabrizio Angileri

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Maceió is a Corinthians player

The fee is $2.2M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Portuguesa drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Maceió gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Maceió has just signed for Corinthians, and for once the answer mattered.

In brief

12 Edition

The Corinthians Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Memphis Depay leads the rout of Santos

3‑0, and Memphis Depay took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Corinthians tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Match

Corinthians are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 24 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Hugo Souza keeps Corinthians in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Jesse Lingard, 33, rolls back the years — 8.14

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.14 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Kayke asks to leave Corinthians

“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.

Match

Nobody wants to play Corinthians 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.

Squad

The step up is real for Favela

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Allan 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.

Player ratings

Yuri Alberto in the eights

A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief