The Tuna Luso Courier
Squad4 Jan 2027
107 days out for Araújo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tuna Luso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Vini Ed is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Tuna Luso will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Kenay
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Tuna Luso
Igor was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Door shut on Rodrigo Ferreira
Tuna Luso asked and São Bernardo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Jhonnatam gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market4 Jan 2027
Tuna Luso sign Aarón Monges, one for the future
Aarón Monges is 20, and Tuna Luso have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market4 Jan 2027
Talks stall between Tuna Luso and Araújo
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Willian Oliveira 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 Willian Oliveira trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Jorge Rocha plays
- Market The Igor talk will not go away
- Market Tuna Luso add cover with Miguel Castillo