The Internacional Courier
Squad1 Feb 2027
Lázaro breaks a bone — 35 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
ASO Chlef come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Internacional did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Internacional
Diego Costa 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Anthoni
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anthoni, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Matheus Bahia has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Internacional will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Matheus Cunha 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 Matheus Cunha has written the date down.
In brief
- Squad “I want to play”: Yago Noal speaks
- The dugout Matheus Bahia asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Guillermo Maripán is training like a man with a point to make