Wesley Mendes

Central Defender - Horizonte
3 Jan 2028
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Process

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The Horizonte Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Samuel due for a Horizonte medical

Everything agreed with Atlético Mineiro, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

Horizonte may not be able to give Lucas Rodrigues what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lucas Rodrigues wants continental football; whether Horizonte can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Horizonte

Facundo Castillo 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 targets

Too dear: Horizonte walk away from Samuel Félix

$35.0K was the most the club would pay and Náutico 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Horizonte

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

Market

The Rodrygo Braga question follows Horizonte around

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

In brief