Guga

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Marked for Guga

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The Penedense Sentinel

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad20 Dec 2027

Júlio César damages knee ligaments — 59 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 59 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom20 Dec 2027

Pressure builds in the Penedense boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match20 Dec 2027

Penedense sink to position 16

21 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

The terraces20 Dec 2027

A $19.0K sale, and a town that did not want it

Diogo Ianelo has gone, the accounts have $19.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

The dugout20 Dec 2027

Guga: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Penedense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout20 Dec 2027

Riquelme Mendes frozen out at Penedense

This is not rotation. Riquelme Mendes has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Penedense is pretending otherwise.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Tempers go at Penedense

Octávio Silva 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.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Jonathan Silva gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jonathan Silva has just signed for Penedense, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets20 Dec 2027

Penedense rebuffed over Felipe Santiago

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Portuguesa have kept their man, and Penedense go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

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The Penedense Sentinel

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Penedense

Leozão 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.

Boardroom11 Oct 2027

Embargo at Penedense

No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.

Looking ahead11 Oct 2027

Penedense take on the side everybody is chasing

América de Natal arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

The manager has not finished forgetting Luiz Nardo'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 dugout11 Oct 2027

Tiago Barbosa 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 Penedense, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market11 Oct 2027

The Edinho story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Edinho signs something — a contract at Penedense or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

  • Market Leozão placed on the list
  • The dugout Guga has been promised minutes
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Henrique Capela