The União Gazette
Squad17 Apr 2028
The knee: Vitor Manuel out for 19 days
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. União lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Julio César breaks a bone — 45 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match15 Apr 2028
The wait goes on for União
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market17 Apr 2028
Mario Contreras hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what União can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Bruno Tesouro frozen out at União
This is not rotation. Bruno Tesouro has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at União is pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Apr 2028
A falling-out at União
Vitor Manuel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
5 academy graduates step up at União
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
Wages swallow 275% of the União income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Market17 Apr 2028
União promote Gabriel Xavier from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Xavier 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: André Oliveira joins the União first team
- Market União promote Victor Teixeira from within
- Boardroom União let a promise lapse