Danilo Araujo

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
5 Jul 2029
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66 Edition

The Manauara Post

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Manauara

42 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The terraces

The mood at Manauara has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Fabinho damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Manauara

Position 16 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match

Manauara leaking at the back

10 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match

Manauara cannot find the net

6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Market

Danilo Araujo asks to leave Manauara

“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.

The dugout

Pedro Costa frozen out at Manauara

This is not rotation. Pedro Costa has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Manauara is pretending otherwise.

Match

Trem take the points off Manauara

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

  • Market No place for Cleitinho in the plan
  • Squad Alfredo falls out with a teammate over standards
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
Back issues
60 Edition

The Manauara Post

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

37 matches without a win for Manauara

The run now stands at 37, and the questions being asked around Manauara are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Fabinho damages knee ligaments — 70 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 70 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.

Squad

Heitor Silva keeps Manauara in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Manauara taken apart

0‑3 to Maranhão, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Roberto Peixoto asks to leave Manauara

“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.

Match

Manauara leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad

Eric Herensperger is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 4 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad

Words at Manauara training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Heitor Silva 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.

The dugout

Danilo Araujo frozen out at Manauara

This is not rotation. Danilo Araujo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Manauara is pretending otherwise.

In brief

  • Boardroom Doors closed at Manauara
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Tuta gets it from the manager
56 Edition

The Manauara Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

34 matches without a win for Manauara

The run now stands at 34, and the questions being asked around Manauara are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Fabinho damages knee ligaments — 100 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 100 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.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Manauara

1‑4 against Maracanã, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

Tempers go at Manauara

Heitor 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.

Squad

Eric Herensperger is slowing down

At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad

A row about effort at Manauara

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Sardella was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

One of our own: Tuta joins the Manauara first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tuta is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

No hiding place for Federico Sardella

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Sardella, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Danilo Araujo frozen out at Manauara

This is not rotation. Danilo Araujo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Manauara is pretending otherwise.

In brief