The Sampaio Corrêa Herald
Market11 Jan 2027
Adriano Rodrigues is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sampaio Corrêa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Peu is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Sampaio Corrêa
Fabinho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Esli García 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
Door shut on Luis Felipe
Sampaio Corrêa asked and Tenerife said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: Victor Pereira joins the Sampaio Corrêa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Victor Pereira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Jan 2027
Sampaio Corrêa promote Paulo Farias from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paulo Farias 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Danilo Bezerra steps up from the Sampaio Corrêa academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Danilo Bezerra 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Sampaio Corrêa
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout Dimas has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Ball asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager makes Matheus Albino a promise