The Oeste Herald
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Oeste
Andrey and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sérgio Raphael 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A month that belonged to Henri
The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Oeste who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A step back for Lucas Alvim at Oeste
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
87% of the income goes out in wages at Oeste
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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Daniel da Silva 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 Daniel da Silva has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Cassiano knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Sérgio Raphael