The Itabaiana Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
57 days out for Dodô after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Itabaiana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Terms done: Juninho is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Pouso Alegre waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Itabaiana is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Itabaiana
Dodô and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Dodô gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Kevin Ghigliazza is still paying for one afternoon at Itabaiana
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Itabaiana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Douglas Tavares is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Boardroom Itabaiana pull $2.5M back off the table
- Market The Gabriel Bernard talk will not go away
- Squad “I want to play”: Fernando Neves speaks
- The dugout André Nardo keeps his manager's vote