The Ituano Sentinel
Squad6 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Saulo
119 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ituano lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market6 Sep 2027
Matheus Mancini puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ituano, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Sep 2027
João Pedro Tchoca 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 Ituano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Ituano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kike Saverio 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.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
Wesley Borges counts the days
“I watch every Ituano game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Figueirense runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Dudu stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dudu and Ituano agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Railson
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead6 Sep 2027
A reunion for Guilherme Dal Pian
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against CSA in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market6 Sep 2027
Saulo linked with a move away
The name of Saulo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ituano say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Match Continental football is in reach for Ituano
- The dugout Gabriel Abdias asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager makes Leandro Sergipe a promise