The ABC Sentinel
Market11 Jan 2027
Jhosefer attracts admirers
The name of Jhosefer has come up in conversations ABC were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Randerson at ABC
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Randerson is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at ABC
Vinicius Balieiro 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Vitor Luiz moves on
Tombense pay $160.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
APOEL tell ABC: Gabriel Pereira is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market11 Jan 2027
ABC promote Fera from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fera has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Jan 2027
ABC promote Douglas Queiroz from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Douglas Queiroz has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Bruno Leite 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Cayo Tenório asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout Lima gets picked when it counts
- Squad Rafael William has outgrown this division
- The dugout The manager makes Thiaguinho a promise