Santino Robles

Left Midfielder - Oeste
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Santino Robles

21 Edition

The Oeste Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Oeste

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

Squad

Words at Oeste training over how hard people work

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

Oeste try to borrow Miguel Terceros

Santos 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Ignacio Sosa is in the works

Oeste have made the call to Bragantino. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Oeste try to borrow Pedro Cobra

Atlético Mineiro 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Vitor Lima

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

A door opens for Bryam

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

Caio Hila has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Caio Hila keeps the shirt for now, at Oeste's convenience rather than his own.

The dugout

Ailton knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ailton trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Oeste Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Victor Hugo

Oeste and Bahia have settled on $83.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Squad

Sérgio Raphael 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 Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Oeste beat the market to Miguel Angelo from Paysandu

Paysandu will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Miguel Angelo has pre-agreed a move to Oeste, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market

Renato Porto steps up from the Oeste academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Renato Porto 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: Márcio Costa joins the Oeste first team

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

Squad

A row about effort at Oeste

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

Squad

No place for Santino Robles in the new shape

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

The dugout

A door opens for Bryam

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

Competition arrives for Léo Ceará

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Oeste have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

In brief