The Sampaio Corrêa Herald
Market28 Feb 2028
Only the photograph left for Felipe Cauã
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Felipe Cauã will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sampaio Corrêa the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Sampaio Corrêa
Luiz Daniel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words at Sampaio Corrêa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Tassano 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.
Loan watch28 Feb 2028
Zé Henrique has seen enough of Marcílio Dias
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sampaio Corrêa, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Market28 Feb 2028
Guilherme Nunes linked with a move away
The name of Guilherme Nunes keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sampaio Corrêa say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
When it matters, Alex Pullchz 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.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Matheus Soares 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 Matheus Soares trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
The manager makes Daniel Mazerochi a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Sampaio Corrêa. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Juan Camacaro has settled at Sampaio Corrêa
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Fernando Figueiredo
- Squad André Xavier back in training