The Criciúma Gazette
Market18 Jan 2027
Edú Azañero says no to Shirak
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Edú Azañero had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market18 Jan 2027
Octávio has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Criciúma they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Criciúma
Dell and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Criciúma count the cost of losing Willian Assis
30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Jhonata Robert
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
Fabricio wants to come home
“I did not go to Cianorte to sit and watch. I want to come back to Criciúma and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Criciúma training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Breider Villalobos is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
When it matters, César Martins plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market18 Jan 2027
Yuri Tanque linked with a move away
The name of Yuri Tanque keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Criciúma say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- The dugout Rodrigo has been promised minutes
- Market Alisson placed on the list
- The dugout Rodrigo Haruki asks for a word with the manager