The ABC Sentinel
Market10 Jan 2028
Vitor Luiz’s move to Ypiranga falls through
The deal that would have taken Vitor Luiz to Ypiranga has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to ABC with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Randerson signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Randerson commits to ABC for another 4 years.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A falling-out at ABC
Randerson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Lisandro Tejada gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lisandro Tejada has just signed for ABC, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Door shut on Vinícius Silvestre
ABC asked and Coritiba said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Jan 2028
ABC promote Luís Batista from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luís Batista has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Jan 2028
ABC promote Henrique Assis from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Henrique Assis has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Jan 2028
Victor Lima steps up from the ABC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Victor Lima 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Luiz Fernando 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.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Rodolfo Castro plays
- The dugout Randerson asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Clayton has been promised minutes