The Sport Recife Courier
Market14 Jan 2030
Sport Recife turn down Universitatea Craiova for Jonathan Calleri
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Tempers go at Sport Recife
Lucas Moura was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market14 Jan 2030
Lucas Ronier wants more than Sport Recife are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Transfer targets14 Jan 2030
No deal for Geovane Meurer at that price
Sport Recife offered $160.0K; Botafogo-SP said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Words at Sport Recife training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Calleri 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.
Market14 Jan 2030
Maranhão join the queue for Hugo Leonardo
Add another name to the list: Maranhão have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hugo Leonardo. The answer from Sport Recife has not changed — yet.
Market14 Jan 2030
One of our own: André Ribeiro joins the Sport Recife first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. André Ribeiro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Henrique Carvalho signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Henrique Carvalho commits to Sport Recife for another 4 years.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Too much change too quickly at Sport Recife
16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Loan watch Igor Felisberto wants to come home
- The dugout When it matters, Gustavo Santana plays
- The dugout Benjamín Kuscevic knocks on the manager's door