Marked for Gabriel Varanda
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match19 Jun 2027
6 matches without a win for Trem
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Trem are no longer polite ones.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Trem may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Trem have done the hard part with Sport Recife, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Isac Miller did the work nobody counts — 6.66
16 combined actions and 6.66. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Trem
Nicolás Álvez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
Trem counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Trem now.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sousa have kept their man, and Trem go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Trem training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedrinho 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.
Match19 Jun 2027
A bad afternoon for Trem against GAS
0‑2 to GAS, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Pedrinho
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Rickelme is in the works
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Trem
Daniel Ayala was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
7 new faces, and Trem are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market15 Feb 2027
He is 18, and nobody at Trem signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market15 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mateus Petri’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A new face in his position, and Felipe Hereda suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Trem have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market15 Feb 2027
The window shut and Rafael Mina is still in the building
Trem spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
Market15 Feb 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.