The Palmeiras Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
Khellven damages knee ligaments — 75 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 75 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market8 Feb 2027
Palmeiras say no — this time
The offer from Kawasaki Frontale for José Manuel López was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Palmeiras
Alexander Barboza 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Victor Cunha joins the Palmeiras first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Victor Cunha is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Palmeiras promote Ronny from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ronny 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Vitor Oliveira steps up from the Palmeiras academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vitor Oliveira 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Home is on Munir Mohand's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Palmeiras are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Carlos Miguel 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 Carlos Miguel is on it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Murilo knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Palmeiras, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Joaquín Piquerez
- The dugout Lucas Romero keeps his manager's vote