The ABC Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at ABC
Wallyson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nobody at ABC has picked up the phone to Wellington Carvalho
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at ABC
16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Jhosefer runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. 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
ABC buy the years ahead of Diego Gomes
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market10 Aug 2026
ABC buy the years ahead of Sérgio Assis
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market10 Aug 2026
ABC sign Gabriel Machado, one for the future
Gabriel Machado is 14, and ABC have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Match8 Aug 2026
ABC share the spoils with Santa Cruz
A 1‑1 draw with Santa Cruz leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad10 Aug 2026
ABC pick somebody else ahead of Régis Potiguar
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Squad Brunão named player of the week
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Lima
- Player ratings Lucas Souza spends the afternoon fouling