The Palmeiras Chronicle
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Jefferson Savarino
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market4 Jan 2027
Terms done: Gustavo Gómez is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Fluminense waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Palmeiras is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The knee: Arthur out for 16 days
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Palmeiras lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A brace, and José Manuel López takes the afternoon — 9.28
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. José Manuel López provided it, and the 9.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match4 Jan 2027
Palmeiras up to position 3
36 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market4 Jan 2027
José Manuel López 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 The request is on a desk at Palmeiras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Vitor Roque, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.19
A mark of 8.19 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Vitor Roque honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Palmeiras had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Market4 Jan 2027
Carlos Miguel wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Palmeiras hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
In brief
- Squad Real improvement from Heittor at Palmeiras
- Market Eyes on José Manuel López again
- Squad A falling-out at Palmeiras