Monstro

Left Wingback - Paysandu U20
12 Feb 2035
Monday
Process

Marked for Monstro

419 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

7 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Paysandu give the job to Interim Coach

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Squad

Monstro damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Gerbin Silva: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Paysandu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Rodrigo Soares 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 The request is on a desk at Paysandu, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Kaan Sarman has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Paysandu they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Michel Araújo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Michel Araújo and Paysandu agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Paysandu

João Pedro Tchoca 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.

Market

Gabriel Mesquita is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Paysandu has been clear about where Gabriel Mesquita stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings

Gonzalo Larrazábal runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
418 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

31 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Monstro damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Gonzalo Larrazábal runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Felipe Teresa asks to leave Paysandu

“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.

Squad

Felipe Teresa says Paysandu went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Kleiton Pego yet — 8.11

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.11 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Gonzalo Larrazábal wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

João Pedro Tchoca 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 Paysandu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

André 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.

Match

Paysandu get the job done against Oeste

A 1‑0 win over Oeste, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

  • Boardroom Wages eat 111% of everything Paysandu earn
  • The terraces The spotlight tightens on Matheus Nogueira
  • Market The window shut and Denzel is still in the building