The Águia de Marabá Gazette
Squad13 Dec 2027
Henrique is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Águia de Marabá will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Tempers go at Águia de Marabá
Dong Chunyu 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.
Transfer targets13 Dec 2027
Door shut on Heitor Gatti
Águia de Marabá asked and Sampaio Corrêa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Petróleo 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.
Boardroom13 Dec 2027
121% of the income goes out in wages at Águia de Marabá
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Petróleo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Lucas Viana is still paying for one afternoon at Águia de Marabá
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market13 Dec 2027
The Harlley question follows Águia de Marabá around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Harlley’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Match13 Dec 2027
Águia de Marabá in the hunt for Europe
Position 4, 50 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
In brief
- Squad Eduardo: “I am not a substitute”
- Market Águia de Marabá borrow Erick
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Dong Chunyu