The GAS Courier
Market28 Feb 2028
Vitor Neves puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at GAS, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at GAS
Felipe Ribeiro 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.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
125% of the income goes out in wages at GAS
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words at GAS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Sotelo 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
GAS lose Luís Queiroz
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
When it matters, Tubarão plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Víctor Ríos 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.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Renato Alves knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at GAS, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Feb 2028
Rafinha linked with a move away
The name of Rafinha keeps appearing in other people's back pages. GAS say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Arthur Andrade a promise
- Squad The penny has dropped for Guilherme Lima