The Grêmio Herald
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Grêmio
Willian 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Leonel Pérez signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonel Pérez and Grêmio agree another 5 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Jovane Cabral 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
When it matters, Willian 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
Tetê 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 Tetê trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market8 Feb 2027
The Erick Noriega talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Grêmio know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Cristian Olivera
- Market The shop window has Benjamin in it
- The dugout The manager comes out for Weverton