Jackson

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Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jackson

22 Edition

The Capital Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Rodrygo Tavares puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Capital, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

The step up is real for Danilo

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Éverson 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 Capital this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

143% of the income goes out in wages at Capital

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Transfer targets

Capital ask about Miguel Angelo

A loan enquiry to Paysandu: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jackson

“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.

Squad

Lipe needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Capital know which stage they are at.

Squad

Jackson: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Capital will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Market

The shop window has Einstein in it

Capital have let the market know Einstein can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

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The Capital Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Wesllen Reis goes up and wins it — 7.92

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.92 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

Éverson due for a Capital medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Words exchanged at Capital

Gabriel Correia 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.

Market

The ambition of Gabriel Correia outgrows Capital early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

The dugout

Jeferson Souza gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Jackson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jackson commits to Capital for another 4 years.

Squad

The formation has left Gabriel Correia behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Capital will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

Anderson Prestes has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Capital know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Player ratings

Rodrygo Tavares beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief