The Corinthians Sentinel
Match17 Apr 2027
Corinthians make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Corinthians have 5 straight wins of it.
Match17 Apr 2027
Corinthians make home a hard place to visit
13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Market19 Apr 2027
Charles asks to leave Corinthians
“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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Yuri Alberto 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 Corinthians this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market19 Apr 2027
Pedro Milans is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Corinthians is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Corinthians
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Corinthians
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matheuzinho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces19 Apr 2027
One of their own: Felipe Augusto
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market19 Apr 2027
One of our own: Vinícius Oliveira joins the Corinthians first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vinícius Oliveira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Pedro Xavier joins the Corinthians first team
- Match Felipe Augusto sends Corinthians past Vasco da Gama
- Player ratings Yuri Alberto was unplayable