Rafael Melo

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Marked for Rafael Melo

113 Edition

The Criciuma Gazette

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market25 Sep 2028

Marcinho hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Criciuma can pretend not to have heard.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Bruno Alves 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 Criciuma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Words at Criciuma training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fágner 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.

In brief

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The Criciuma Gazette

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market28 Aug 2028

Marcinho asks to leave Criciuma

“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.

Match26 Aug 2028

The wait goes on for Criciuma

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings28 Aug 2028

Nobody could get near Chris Ramos

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Criciuma

Bruno Alves 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.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Fágner 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.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Fágner 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.

Match26 Aug 2028

A bad afternoon for Criciuma against Parana

0‑1 to Parana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Criciuma lose Rafael Melo

53 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The terraces28 Aug 2028

The spotlight tightens on Marcelo Hermes

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief