The Nautico Courier
Squad30 Nov 2026
Muriel breaks a bone — 110 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Nautico
Muriel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Matheus Ribeiro 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Juninho
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juninho, and the manager let it.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 100% of the Nautico income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes Paulo Sérgio a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Nautico. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.