The São Luiz Sentinel
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from João Victor at São Luiz
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. João Victor is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at São Luiz
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fáider Burbano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market11 Jan 2027
São Luiz promote Mateus Assis from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mateus Assis 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
11 new faces, and São Luiz are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market11 Jan 2027
The Kaynan story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kaynan signs something — a contract at São Luiz or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The dressing room has a star in it
Diogo Batista arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.
In brief
- Market Pedro Estevam arrives on loan
- The dugout Marcelo Moura asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Júnior Peixoto