The Ceará Chronicle
Match26 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Ceará's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ceará has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Matheus Araújo was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 34. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match26 Dec 2026
Ceará cannot find the net
9 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market28 Dec 2026
Lucas Lima has said yes to Fortaleza
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ceará have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Ceará make their move for Marlon Gomes
$12.2M on the table at Shakhtar. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market28 Dec 2026
Jorge 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 The request is on a desk at Ceará, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Dennis Ayensa turns down Ceará
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Standard Liege keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Too dear: Ceará walk away from Isac
$820.0K was the most the club would pay and São Paulo were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Ceará
Vinicius Zanocelo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.