Ney

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Process

Marked for Ney

38 Edition

The São José Sentinel

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Allefe asks to leave São José

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Thiago Rodríguez, 21, steals the show — 7.72

Marked 7.72 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

Still nobody has beaten São José

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

The dugout

Ney keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” São José may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Jhonatan 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 São José this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

1 academy players handed senior numbers at São José

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Welisson Santos stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Welisson Santos and São José agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Felipe Cardoso beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Thiago Rodríguez

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The São José Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

São José refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 26 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

William Barbio 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 São José this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

An offer of $34.0K for Riquelme

São José have gone to Vitória with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kaique Kenji

São José asked and Cruzeiro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Nicolás Gómez 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 dugout

André Teixeira frozen out at São José

This is not rotation. André Teixeira has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at São José is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom

$1.2M on the table at São José

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Squad

Jhonatan named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jhonatan is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

Pedro Antônio knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Pedro Antônio trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief