The Juventude Sentinel
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ruan Carneiro
122 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Juventude lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Juventude
Luiz Mandaca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Juventude training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Paulo 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Juventude are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Alan Ruschel has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Juventude will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market25 Jan 2027
The Gabriel Taliari talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Juventude know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout Manuel Castro knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Alan Ruschel has been promised minutes
- Market The shop window has Guilherme Lacerda in it
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Luquinhas at Criciuma