The Ceará Chronicle
Squad15 Feb 2027
Vina in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ceará this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Fera for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Ceará will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Fernando's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
André Luis 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 Ceará, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Nicolás Ferreira still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Ceará would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Gabriel Amaral has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Ceará will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Market Matheus Araújo linked with a move away
- Squad Richard has seen what the next man earns
- Market Window shut, Gustavo Simões still here
- The dugout Vinicius Zanocelo keeps his manager's vote