Adrielson

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Grêmio
23 Sep 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Adrielson

44 Edition

The Grêmio Herald

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten Grêmio

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

The dugout

João Borne says Grêmio went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Grêmio

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

Squad

Words at Grêmio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Ignacio Nardoni is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Benjamin

“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.

Match

Nobody wins at Grêmio

8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

Adrielson: “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 Grêmio will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

The dugout

Francis Amuzu 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 Francis Amuzu is on it.

Match

Grêmio and America Mineiro take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

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42 Edition

The Grêmio Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

26 days out for Weverton after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Grêmio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Tetê beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 35. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Whatever happens, Grêmio do not lose

9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Adrielson 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 Grêmio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Juan Ignacio Nardoni 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 dugout

No hiding place for Cristian Olivera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Olivera, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Juan Ignacio Nardoni has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Grêmio will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Match

Grêmio and Botafogo take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Henrique Cunha was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Grêmio dressing room was either.

In brief