The Oeste Herald
Market24 Apr 2028
Ailton hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oeste can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Apr 2028
No end in sight to Oeste's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Oeste has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Andrey in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words at Oeste training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sérgio Raphael 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.
Match22 Apr 2028
Oeste leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match22 Apr 2028
Rubens’s goal not enough for Oeste
Rubens scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Grêmio, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Juninho 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.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Léo Ceará runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Rubens finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Oeste have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
- Player ratings An afternoon Caio Hila will want back
- Player ratings An afternoon Caio Garcez will want back
- Boardroom The Oeste production line keeps running