The Maringá Chronicle
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Príncipe
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maringá lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market18 Jan 2027
Maringá say no — this time
The offer from Maritimo for Edison Negueba was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Maringá
Robertinho 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
Rhuan knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Maringá, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market18 Jan 2027
The Rhuan question follows Maringá around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rhuan’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Renato Nardo gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Renato Nardo is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Welligton has been promised minutes
- Loan watch Matheus Moraes keeps scoring at Albirex Niigata
- Squad The penny has dropped for Rafael França
- Squad The training reports on Samuel Lopes are not good