Marked for Danilo Cunha
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
Pyunik come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Goiás did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Goiás
Lucas Ribeiro 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Goiás may not be able to give Ronaldo what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ronaldo wants continental football; whether Goiás can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
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.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
Baldória wants to come home
“I did not go to Maricá to sit and watch. I want to come back to Goiás and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Lucas Ribeiro 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 Lucas Ribeiro trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Pedrinho gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pedrinho is on it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Danilo Cunha
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Diego Caito’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Goiás did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Pedrinho is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diego Caito commits to Goiás for another 5 years.
Market11 Jan 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Danilo Cunha reports back to Goiás with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Goiás
Lucas Ribeiro and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
No deal for Foguinho at that price
Goiás offered $17.0K; São Bernardo said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bragantino have kept their man, and Goiás go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
When it matters, Diego Caito plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Tadeu linked with a move away
The name of Tadeu keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Goiás say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Santa Cruz waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Goiás is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market4 Jan 2027
Goiás spend $1.6M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $1.6M has been paid because Ronaldo is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Goiás go back to the board over Foguinho
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $18.6K — a club that wants Foguinho enough to be asked twice.
Squad4 Jan 2027
42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Goiás
Lucas Ribeiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The offer went to São Bernardo this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The clock did what Mirassol would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Racing have kept their man, and Goiás go back to a list with one name crossed off it.