Monstro

Striker - Tocantinópolis
8 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Monstro

20 Edition

The Tocantinópolis Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

No thanks: João Borne rejects the move

Tocantinópolis had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Grêmio, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Real improvement from Lucca at Tocantinópolis

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lucca is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Tocantinópolis

Erick Bahia 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.

Transfer targets

Tocantinópolis rebuffed over Kauã Jonathan

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Londrina have kept their man, and Tocantinópolis go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Nicolás Lugano 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.

Market

Tocantinópolis promote Thiago Batista from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thiago Batista 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.

Market

Paulo Cavalcante steps up from the Tocantinópolis academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paulo Cavalcante has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Transfer targets

Tocantinópolis ask about Juan Pablo

A loan enquiry to Inter de Limeira: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Wesley Natã is in the works

Tocantinópolis have made the call to Fluminense. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

  • Squad No place for Lucca in the new shape
  • The dugout No hiding place for Monstro
  • The dugout Carlos Fernandes is still being punished for one mistake
Back issues
11 Edition

The Tocantinópolis Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Jonathan out for 132 days

132 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tocantinópolis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

68 days out for Bruno Morais after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tocantinópolis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Rodrigo Braga 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 Tocantinópolis, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Colo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A falling-out at Tocantinópolis

Bruno Morais and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Monstro steps up from the Tocantinópolis academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Monstro has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Tocantinópolis promote Bruno Moreira from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bruno Moreira 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.

The dugout

Bruno Morais 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.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Samuel Batista's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

  • Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Independência
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Rodney