The Maranhão Herald
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ibson Melo damages knee ligaments — 71 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 71 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ezequiel 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 Maranhão this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Júlio Amorim 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 targets11 Jan 2027
Maranhão rebuffed over Willian Bahia
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Água Santa have kept their man, and Maranhão go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: Professor joins the Maranhão first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Professor is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Diego Sabando is a square peg at Maranhão
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Biel
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Biel, and the manager let it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Júlio Amorim 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
When it matters, André Castro plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Market The Maílson talk will not go away
- The dugout The manager makes Rafael Mariano a promise
- Market Romisson arrives on loan