The Maranhão Herald
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Age has not caught André Castro yet — 7.93
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.93 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match22 Aug 2026
Maranhão see off GAS
Three points for Maranhão, 2‑1 the final word against GAS in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Matheus Bidick was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Maílson has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Maranhão know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No place for Matheus Bidick in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Maranhão are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market24 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Maranhão and Matheus Bidick
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Maranhão
9 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Márcio Martins signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Márcio Martins commits to Maranhão for another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Matheus Queiroz kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Showman
- The dugout When it matters, André Castro plays
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Márcio Martins