The Botafogo Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marçal
166 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Botafogo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Danilo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
Feirense come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Botafogo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vitinho stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vitinho and Botafogo agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alex Telles 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 Botafogo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Botafogo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vitinho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match8 Aug 2026
Botafogo find a way past Corinthians
Corinthians made Botafogo work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Gabriel Batista
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Batista, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Caio Pereira steps up from the Botafogo academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Caio Pereira 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.
In brief
- Market Botafogo promote Paulo Fernandes from within
- Market One of our own: Vitão joins the Botafogo first team
- Player ratings Cristian Medina in the eights