The Altos Post
Match28 Dec 2026
Altos are in real trouble now
Position 15, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Pedro Figueiredo says Altos went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Carlão will not be coming to Altos
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Botafogo-SP is saying, and nobody at Altos is enjoying the guessing.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Altos
Willyam Maranhão 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Altos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Axel Roldán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Altos try to borrow Alberto Medina
Oriental 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 targets28 Dec 2026
A loan move for Daniel Soares is in the works
Altos have made the call to Brasil de Pelotas. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market28 Dec 2026
A long bet from Altos on Borges
He is 20, and nobody at Altos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Araujo is a square peg at Altos
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.