The Goiás Chronicle
Market8 Feb 2027
Lucas Ribeiro asks to leave Goiás
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Goiás
Lorenzo Scipioni and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market8 Feb 2027
Moraes has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Goiás can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Goiás training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tadeu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market8 Feb 2027
Goiás promote Daniel Lopes from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Lopes 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Alan Stence
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Moraes gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Moraes is on it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Moraes knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Moraes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Alan Stence wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Goiás will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
In brief
- Market The Diego Caito talk will not go away
- Squad Ewerton has seen what the next man earns
- The dugout Wellington Rato keeps his manager's vote