Marked for Lars Linnes
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market10 Dec 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Jequié, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Dec 2029
A falling-out at Jequié
Henrique and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Dec 2029
Jequié asked and Itabaiana said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Guilherme Freitas 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.
The dugout10 Dec 2029
“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 dugout10 Dec 2029
Klim Perekalskiy is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Transfer targets10 Dec 2029
América Mineiro have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets10 Dec 2029
Ituano have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market10 Dec 2029
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Jequié, another week without a signature from Ednilson Furtado.
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Crisis
Boardroom24 Sep 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at Jequié
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Jequié is running low.
The terraces24 Sep 2029
Supporters organise against the Jequié board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market24 Sep 2029
Jayme puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Jequié, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Henrique in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jequié this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Sep 2029
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 Sep 2029
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Boardroom24 Sep 2029
The borrowing at Jequié reaches $6.8M
Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $6.8M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
Kelvis 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Home is on Lars Linnes's mind
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Player ratings
Pajé beats them one at a time
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 Sep 2029
Words exchanged at Jequié
Henrique 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.
Boardroom10 Sep 2029
Wages swallow 169% of the Jequié income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Boardroom10 Sep 2029
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.
Squad10 Sep 2029
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Jequié are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market10 Sep 2029
The clock does Biel Potiguar’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Jequié could ask drops and the wages Biel Potiguar can ask rise.
Market10 Sep 2029
The David Lopes talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Jequié know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
Luís Nardo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Looking ahead10 Sep 2029
Looking ahead: Sousa at home
A side in position 10 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
Pajé keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Pajé plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Crisis
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Jequié can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market3 Sep 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Jequié can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Pajé stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Pajé and Jequié agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Tempers go at Jequié
Henrique 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.
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
The owner puts $286.4K into Jequié
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Match1 Sep 2029
Sampaio Corrêa left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout3 Sep 2029
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout3 Sep 2029
The manager's exit leaves Julio Henrique exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Julio Henrique is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.