The Grêmio Herald
Squad18 Jan 2027
65 days out for Martin Braithwaite after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Grêmio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Cleiton stays at Bragantino as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Grêmio will try again when the window opens; Bragantino may not be selling by then.
Market18 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for Thiago Beltrame
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thiago Beltrame will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Grêmio the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Martin Braithwaite 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 Grêmio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Juan Ignacio Nardoni 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Grêmio promote Vitor Rocha from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vitor Rocha 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Douglas Lopes steps up from the Grêmio academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Douglas Lopes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market18 Jan 2027
Grêmio promote Diego Farias from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Farias 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.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
Leonel Pérez has seen enough of Cienciano
“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 5 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- The dugout André Henrique gets it from the manager
- The dugout Weverton has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad Cristian Olivera still has not settled