“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what São Paulo can pretend not to have heard.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around São Paulo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
São Paulo interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Interim Coach keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. David Terans will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around São Paulo the goodbyes have quietly begun.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at São Paulo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. David Terans will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around São Paulo the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Fabricio Domínguez 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.
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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at São Paulo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bahia, and it is not being withdrawn.
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Bahia have had the benefit of it.
The chase for Gabriel Grando ended with $2.2M changing hands and Grêmio out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
São Paulo paid $1.1M and Bahia took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Mathematically certain, and nobody in this town is going to bed early. Whatever else happened this season, it finishes a division above where it started.
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and São Paulo have had the benefit of it.
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Nicolas is a São Paulo player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what São Paulo can pretend not to have heard.
The chase for Iago ended with $1.2M changing hands and Bahia out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
The chase for Renan ended with $1.1M changing hands and Bahia out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Chrystian Barletta 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bahia can pretend not to have heard.
Caio Alexandre 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.
Add another name to the list: São Paulo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Renan. The answer from Bahia has not changed — yet.