Ivanilson

Right Back - Cruzeiro U20
19 Jun 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Ivanilson

34 Edition

The Cruzeiro Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Promise David out for 39 days

The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Promise David, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Loan watch

Jonathan Jesus wants to come home

“I did not go to América de Natal to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cruzeiro and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

The dugout

When it matters, William plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Gabriel Pec 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 Cruzeiro, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Gérson talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cruzeiro know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Country calls for Gérson

He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Cruzeiro lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.

In brief

Back issues
31 Edition

The Cruzeiro Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Cruzeiro

Matheus Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Cruzeiro count the cost of losing Ivanilson

20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Cruzeiro are still strangers to each other

8 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.

Loan watch

Néiser Villarreal wants to come home

“I did not go to Amazonas to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cruzeiro and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 8 matches say the rest.

The dugout

João Marcelo 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 João Marcelo is on it.

Market

The Fabrício Bruno talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cruzeiro know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

João Marcelo knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and João Marcelo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Loan watch

Gabriel Barbosa keeps scoring at Santos

18 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

A door opens for Gabriel Pec

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

27 Edition

The Cruzeiro Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

William says no to Santa Clara

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. William had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Squad

Matheus Pereira 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.

Squad

Ivanilson out for 53 days

The medical room confirms 53 days on the sidelines for Ivanilson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

7 new faces, and Cruzeiro 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.

Loan watch

Keny Arroyo wants to come home

“I did not go to Caracas to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cruzeiro and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.

Squad

Tevis slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Tevis is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

When it matters, João Marcelo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Gabriel Pec knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gabriel Pec trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Fabrício Bruno talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cruzeiro know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief