The Paysandu Gazette
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Paysandu
JP Galvão and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Paysandu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Márcio Júnior 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ítalo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A door opens for João Paulo
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Castro 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 Castro trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Mauricio Chanampa starts on the language
Two hours a week with a tutor, which is the least glamorous thing at Paysandu and the one that decides whether a foreign signing is still here in two years.
In brief
- The dugout Yeferson Quintana keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Yeferson Quintana is training like a man with a point to make