The Treze Courier
Squad10 Jul 2028
49 days out for Willian Oliveira after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Treze will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match8 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Treze's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Treze has to find a result from somewhere.
Match8 Jul 2028
Treze cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Treze
Leandro Soares 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words at Treze training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guilherme 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.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
Nobody could get near Leandro Soares
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom10 Jul 2028
Wages swallow 97% of the Treze income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Market10 Jul 2028
Treze buy the years ahead of Caio Assis
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market10 Jul 2028
A long bet from Treze on Leonardo Rocha
He is 19, and nobody at Treze signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Market Treze sign Renato Teixeira, one for the future
- The dugout Alex Tavares: “We have to be better”
- The dugout Iago asks for a word with the manager