Otávio Gabriel

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Marked for Otávio Gabriel

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The Cruzeiro Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Otávio Gabriel out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cruzeiro lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Memphis Depay

Cruzeiro asked and Corinthians said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

No deal for Carlos Coronel at that price

Cruzeiro offered $4.6M; Sport Recife said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Matheus Henrique signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matheus Henrique and Cruzeiro agree another 4 years.

Squad

Matheus Pereira 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 Cruzeiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Cienciano join the queue for Jonathan Jesus

Add another name to the list: Cienciano have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jonathan Jesus. The answer from Cruzeiro has not changed — yet.

Market

A season away well spent by Kauã Moraes

14 games, 0 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Cruzeiro now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.

Transfer targets

Cruzeiro ask about Rafael Freitas

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

Squad

6 new faces, and Cruzeiro are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

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The Cruzeiro Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Otávio Gabriel damages knee ligaments — 26 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Cruzeiro pay Vitória $8.5M for a proper upgrade

Vitória did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $8.5M for Erick, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Market

Cruzeiro sell Luis Sinisterra for $13.4M

Luis Sinisterra has left for Flamengo in a $13.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Cruzeiro turn down Penarol for Lucas Romero

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Cruzeiro bid $4.6M for Carlos Coronel

The offer went to Sport Recife this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

The terraces

Cruzeiro sell a favourite for $13.4M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Luis Sinisterra was one of the reasons people came, and $13.4M does not replace that by itself.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Cruzeiro walk away from José María Herrera

$2.1M was the most the club would pay and Bragantino were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Diego Caito

Cruzeiro asked and Goiás said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Cruzeiro go back to the board over Carlos Coronel

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.2M — a club that wants Carlos Coronel enough to be asked twice.

In brief