The Internacional Courier
Squad12 Oct 2026
The knee: Alerrandro out for 72 days
72 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Internacional lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gabriel Mercado in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Internacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Internacional
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juninho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Internacional 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Alexandro Bernabei 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Victor Jesus
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Alexandro Bernabei talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Internacional know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
A reunion for Kayky
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Fluminense in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Félix Torres knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Internacional, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Gustavo Prado a promise
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Internacional