The Paysandu Gazette
Squad29 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Felipe Augusto out for 93 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Paysandu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The step up is real for John Echavez
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Gabriel Mesquita 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Paysandu count the cost of losing Castro
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Gabriel Mesquita 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
Gabriel Mesquita has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Paysandu 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes Felipe Augusto a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Paysandu. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market29 Mar 2027
John Echavez placed on the list
Paysandu have made John Echavez available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
John Echavez asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Market The Márcio Júnior talk will not go away
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Roger