João Moreira

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Marked for João Moreira

229 Edition

The Mixto Chronicle

16 Dec 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market16 Dec 2030

Only the photograph left for Mathias Santana

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mathias Santana will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mixto the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad16 Dec 2030

Words exchanged at Mixto

Joazi 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.

Transfer targets16 Dec 2030

Door shut on Gustavo Puskas

Mixto asked and América de Natal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom16 Dec 2030

Wages swallow 131% of the Mixto 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.

The dugout16 Dec 2030

João Moreira frozen out at Mixto

This is not rotation. João Moreira has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Mixto is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom16 Dec 2030

The borrowing at Mixto reaches $8.0M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $8.0M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

Market16 Dec 2030

Still no ink between Mixto and Jonathan Palacios

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Mixto, another week without a signature from Jonathan Palacios.

Squad16 Dec 2030

A row about effort at Mixto

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kauã Miranda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets16 Dec 2030

Mixto try to borrow Juan Kuverling

Boavista have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

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225 Edition

The Mixto Chronicle

18 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market18 Nov 2030

Mathias Santana has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mixto they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout18 Nov 2030

Afriyie Asante says Mixto went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad18 Nov 2030

A falling-out at Mixto

Wesley Borges and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad18 Nov 2030

Márcio Júnior 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.

Boardroom18 Nov 2030

Wages eat 134% of everything Mixto earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout18 Nov 2030

João Moreira frozen out at Mixto

This is not rotation. João Moreira has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Mixto is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom18 Nov 2030

The Mixto debt reaches $8.2M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

Squad18 Nov 2030

Dragos Puscas wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Mixto can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market18 Nov 2030

No place for Lucas Ambiel in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lucas Ambiel has his answer from Mixto; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

221 Edition

The Mixto Chronicle

21 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market21 Oct 2030

Mathias Santana is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mixto is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad21 Oct 2030

A falling-out at Mixto

Joazi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom21 Oct 2030

Wages swallow 164% of the Mixto 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.

Match19 Oct 2030

A bad afternoon for Mixto against Nova Iguaçu

0‑1 to Nova Iguaçu, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout21 Oct 2030

Mathias Santana 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.

The dugout21 Oct 2030

João Moreira frozen out at Mixto

This is not rotation. João Moreira has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Mixto is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom21 Oct 2030

The borrowing at Mixto reaches $8.3M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $8.3M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

The dugout21 Oct 2030

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 0‑1 Rafael Rodrigues left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad21 Oct 2030

Afriyie Asante 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.

In brief

193 Edition

The Mixto Chronicle

8 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 Apr 2030

The knee: Bruno Silva out for 27 days

27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mixto lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom8 Apr 2030

Rafael Rodrigues has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Mixto can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom8 Apr 2030

The Mixto board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Market8 Apr 2030

Yang Qiandong hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mixto can pretend not to have heard.

Squad8 Apr 2030

A falling-out at Mixto

Joazi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom8 Apr 2030

The owner puts $383.3K into Mixto

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Boardroom8 Apr 2030

Mixto are $8.2M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Loan watch8 Apr 2030

Luiz Bezerra has seen enough of Cascavel

“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 Mixto, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Market8 Apr 2030

Mixto buy the years ahead of João Moreira

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief