The Tombense Gazette
Squad10 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stephanno
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tombense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
José Luis Rodríguez turns down Tombense
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Vasco da Gama keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market10 Jan 2028
Deijair hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tombense can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Tombense
Maicon and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Marcos Antônio 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.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Bahia tell Tombense: Rafa Silva 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Tombense promote Daniel Teixeira from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Teixeira 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Tombense promote Eduardo Souza from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eduardo Souza 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.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
No hiding place for Wendell
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Wendell, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Gusttavo is in the works
- The dugout When it matters, Maicon plays
- Squad Mario Mosset has outgrown this division