The Paysandu Gazette
Squad10 May 2027
The knee: Matheus Azevedo out for 78 days
78 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Paysandu lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad10 May 2027
Words exchanged at Paysandu
Samuel Santos 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.
Match8 May 2027
São Paulo take the points off Paysandu
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Paysandu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Márcio Júnior 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 dugout10 May 2027
No hiding place for Samuel Santos
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Santos, and the manager let it.
Market10 May 2027
One of our own: Caio Lopes joins the Paysandu first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Caio Lopes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 May 2027
Éder Rocha faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Éder Rocha after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Nobody could get near Matheus Vargas
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout10 May 2027
Vinicius Kauê dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- The dugout Cristian Sención does not fit this one
- Market The Gabriel Mesquita talk will not go away
- Squad Yeferson Quintana makes the position his own