64 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atletico Goianiense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marrony was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kaio Mendes and Atletico Goianiense agree another 1 years.
Samuel Rodrigues 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 words a physio says slowly. 86 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Atletico Goianiense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marrony 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.
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atletico Goianiense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
José Hurtado 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guilherme Romão was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Atletico Goianiense know it.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Atletico Goianiense has been clear about where Kawê stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
The dugoutCiro Spalletta has become a man the manager trusts
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Atletico Goianiense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Sampaio Correa moved on, Kawê reports back to Atletico Goianiense, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
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.
Santos will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Pepê Fermino has pre-agreed a move to Atletico Goianiense, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Corinthians have kept their man, and Atletico Goianiense go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Atletico Goianiense will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.