Melk

Central Midfielder - Ceará
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67 Edition

The Ceará Chronicle

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 Nov 2027

Melk keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ceará may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Ceará

Richard 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.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Words at Ceará training over how hard people work

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

Player ratings8 Nov 2027

Matheus Araújo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad8 Nov 2027

No hiding place for Fernandinho

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

Match6 Nov 2027

Ceará draw a blank against Bragantino

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Bragantino defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

  • Boardroom Ceará pull $7.2M back off the table
  • Player ratings The referee tires of Lucas Lima
Back issues
43 Edition

The Ceará Chronicle

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match22 May 2027

The wait goes on for Ceará

23 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad24 May 2027

Bruno Ferreira damages knee ligaments — 56 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 56 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match19 May 2027

The cup run ends for Ceará

1‑6 against Sport Recife, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

The terraces24 May 2027

A cup hiding at Sport Recife leaves Ceará explaining themselves

1-6, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Player ratings24 May 2027

Melk, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad24 May 2027

Tempers go at Ceará

Vina 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.

Player ratings24 May 2027

Juan Alano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match19 May 2027

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Ceará and Sport Recife in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match22 May 2027

A bad afternoon for Ceará against Santos

0‑1 to Santos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Ceará training over how hard people work
  • Squad A long afternoon for Jorge
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Ceará dressing room in a hurry