The Luverdense Chronicle
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Júnior Costa due for a Luverdense medical
Everything agreed with Brasil de Pelotas, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Echaporã turns down Luverdense
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: São Bernardo keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Jairo Reyes at Luverdense
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jairo Reyes is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Luverdense
Natan Masiero 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Door shut on Wanderson
Luverdense asked and Monte Azul said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Giba 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Danilo Moura steps up from the Luverdense academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Danilo Moura has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market11 Jan 2027
Luverdense promote Fernando Oliveira from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fernando Oliveira 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan move for Gabriel Andrade is in the works
Luverdense have made the call to Botafogo-SP. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Market Luverdense buy the years ahead of Joaquín Molina
- Market Luverdense and Joaquín Molina are talking past each other
- The dugout No hiding place for Carlos Figueiredo