Cauã

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
23 Jul 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Cauã

85 Edition

The Iguatu Post

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Carlos Pintos asks to leave Iguatu

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Zé Guilherme 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 Iguatu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Wages eat 101% of everything Iguatu earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Rafael Cunha 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

Joaquín Jorquera asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The César Valenzuela question follows Iguatu around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with César Valenzuela’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Iguatu shop where it costs nothing

Cauã signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

Squad

Hernán Russomanno has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Hernán Russomanno keeps the shirt for now, at Iguatu's convenience rather than his own.

Market

Cauã placed on the list

Iguatu have made Cauã available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
51 Edition

The St. Andrews Sentinel

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dale Camilleri breaks a bone — 111 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Cauã asks to leave St. Andrews

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Addis Dore has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around St. Andrews they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at St. Andrews

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

Transfer targets

St. Andrews rebuffed over Thabang Molefe

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Floriana have kept their man, and St. Andrews go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Guru 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.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Andrews

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Germán Andrés Paiber was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

St. Andrews ask about Emeka Kelvin Agu

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

The dugout

Taylon 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 Taylon is on it.

In brief

33 Edition

The St. Andrews Sentinel

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

St. Andrews throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Zebbug Rangers the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that St. Andrews will enjoy reviewing.

Squad

A fracture rules Liam Scicluna out for 47 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason St. Andrews will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Mattia Galliano has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around St. Andrews they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

6 matches without a win for St. Andrews

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around St. Andrews are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Cauã pops up at the right end — 7.78

7.78, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Player ratings

Guru was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

St. Andrews come up short against Zebbug Rangers

Zebbug Rangers left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at St. Andrews training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Scicluna 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Rodriguinho

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

22 Edition

The St. Andrews Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

St. Andrews sink to position 14

14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Player ratings

Michael Zuo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Michael Zuo 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 St. Andrews this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

242% of the income goes out in wages at St. Andrews

Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.

Match

Pieta Hotspurs take the points off St. Andrews

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Gianluca Bugeja 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.

Match

Halfway: St. Andrews sit in position 14

14 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

The dugout

Joseph Fenech faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Joseph Fenech after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Looking ahead

St. Andrews take on the side everybody is chasing

Swieqi United arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief