The Palmeiras Chronicle
Market1 Feb 2027
Vitor Roque raises the bar for Palmeiras
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Palmeiras heard it as anything else.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Paulinho 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Renê signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Renê and Palmeiras agree another 2 years.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Palmeiras
Juliano 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Carlos Miguel gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Carlos Miguel is on it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A step back for Renê at Palmeiras
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Market1 Feb 2027
Carlos Miguel linked with a move away
The name of Carlos Miguel keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Palmeiras say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Agustín Giay 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Murilo has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Murilo has written the date down.
In brief
- Market Koné Mohamed placed on the list
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Vitor Roque
- Boardroom The Palmeiras production line keeps running