The Santa Cruz Chronicle
Market11 Jan 2027
The Cruzeiro deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Andrey reports back to Santa Cruz with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Willian Júnior: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Santa Cruz have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
No thanks: Tiago Caballero rejects the move
Santa Cruz had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Olimpia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Santa Cruz
Robinho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Foguete
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Andrey falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Benfica tell Santa Cruz: Anísio Cabral is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: Roberto Porto joins the Santa Cruz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Roberto Porto 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
Zinho steps up from the Santa Cruz academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Zinho 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 One of our own: José Batista joins the Santa Cruz first team
- Squad Matías Mariatti has outgrown this division
- The dugout When it matters, Felipe Alves plays