The Grêmio Herald
Market15 Feb 2027
Erick Noriega wants more than Grêmio are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market15 Feb 2027
João Victor has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Grêmio they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Door shut on Charles
Grêmio asked and Botafogo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Perninha joins the Grêmio first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Perninha is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Feb 2027
Grêmio promote Tiago Correia from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tiago Correia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Grêmio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jovane Cabral was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
Luis Eduardo has seen enough of Sousa
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Grêmio, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Hyoran gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Hyoran is on it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Francis Amuzu remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Grêmio would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
In brief
- The dugout Leonel Pérez asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Leonel Pérez takes up the language
- The dugout The manager comes out for Weverton