The Cruzeiro Post
Market11 Jan 2027
Luis Sinisterra agrees terms with Mainz 05
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Cruzeiro people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market11 Jan 2027
Rodriguinho turns El Dakhleya down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Transfer targets11 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. Cruzeiro will try again when the window opens; Bragantino may not be selling by then.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Néiser Villarreal at Cruzeiro
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Néiser Villarreal is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: Sérgio Moura joins the Cruzeiro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sérgio Moura is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Jan 2027
Cruzeiro promote Doutor from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Doutor 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Cruzeiro
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Silva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Cruzeiro
Fágner 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Late improvement for Fabrício
At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
In brief
- The dugout Gabriel Pec gets it from the manager
- The dugout When it matters, Gérson plays
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Gabriel Barbosa’s exile