The Horizonte Chronicle
Market23 Jul 2029
Terms done: Marllon is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Barra waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Horizonte is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Boardroom23 Jul 2029
Horizonte write off $270.1K on Jhonnatam
He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $270.1K of what Horizonte paid for Jhonnatam is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
Horizonte agree $8.0K for Danilo Barbosa
The clubs have shaken hands with Azuriz; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Player ratings23 Jul 2029
Age has not caught Judson yet — 7.81
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market23 Jul 2029
Horizonte turn down Tocantinópolis for César Xavier
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Boardroom23 Jul 2029
Window shuts: 1 in, 18 out at Horizonte
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 18 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
Horizonte baulk at the price for Rafael Carvalheira
Bragantino wanted more than $1.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Arthur Nardo 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 Horizonte this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Horizonte lose Thiago Henrique
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Transfer targets Horizonte rebuffed over Paulinho
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Henrique Monteiro
- Match Horizonte find a way past Confiança