The Mirassol Courier
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Lautaro Napolitano keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mirassol may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Mirassol
Diego Lopes 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Edson Carioca 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Mirassol count the cost of losing Marcelo Lopes
49 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Fernandinho
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Lucas Oliveira knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lucas Oliveira trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout Braian Cuello has been promised minutes
- Squad The training reports on Jhonatan Lima are not good