Marked for Danilo Lima
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom20 Dec 2027
Pressure builds in the Lagarto boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market20 Dec 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lagarto, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets20 Dec 2027
No thanks: Índio rejects the move
Lagarto had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Atlético Mineiro, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Brayan 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 Lagarto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom20 Dec 2027
Lagarto counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Lagarto now.
Market20 Dec 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Lagarto have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets20 Dec 2027
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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
27 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets20 Dec 2027
A loan move for Kainã is in the works
Lagarto have made the call to Parnahyba. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Lagarto
Glaybson 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to William Menezes, and the manager let it.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Glaybson knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Glaybson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market11 Oct 2027
The Kattê question follows Lagarto around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kattê’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad11 Oct 2027
His past walked in ahead of him. Players who have been where he has been get a hearing in a dressing room before they have earned one, and he has it for as long as his form does.
Market11 Oct 2027
Lagarto have let the market know Marcos Vinicius can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market11 Oct 2027
Still no signature from Renan
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Lagarto could get for him.
Looking ahead11 Oct 2027
Next up at home: Santa Cruz de Natal, who go into it in position 15. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
In brief
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Squad
Kawê named in the team of the week
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Match
Mid-table, and Lagarto know it
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Crisis
Squad20 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market20 Sep 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad20 Sep 2027
At 20 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Lagarto
Brayan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
This is not rotation. Júlio Ferrari has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Lagarto is pretending otherwise.
Match18 Sep 2027
Figueirense left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Everybody at Lagarto saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
Glaybson gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom20 Sep 2027
Wages swallow 129% of the Lagarto income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Wallace's mistake
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Market
Lagarto buy the years ahead of Danilo Lima
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 27 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match15 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Retrô
2‑5 against Tombense, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match12 Aug 2026
Retrô bow out of the cup
Boavista go through and Retrô go home, 0‑22 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Boavista follows Retrô home
0-22. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Match15 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Retrô
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match15 Aug 2026
Retrô leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match15 Aug 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Retrô and Tombense in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match12 Aug 2026
22 goals as Retrô and Boavista go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 22 goals between Retrô and Boavista, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑5 Willian Ribeiro left the room before anybody could ask which.