The Criciuma Gazette
Market1 Mar 2027
Jean Irmer has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Criciuma can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Criciuma
Yuri Tanque 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Criciuma training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aírton 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Criciuma count the cost of losing Dylan
40 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Criciuma have started building around Jean Irmer
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Alisson 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.
In brief
- Market The Yuri Tanque question follows Criciuma around
- The dugout Waguininho has been promised minutes
- Market Juan Ramírez placed on the list
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Bruno Alves