The Sampaio Corrêa Herald
Market8 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Adriano Rodrigues
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adriano Rodrigues will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sampaio Corrêa the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Danilo Lopes steps up from the Sampaio Corrêa academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Danilo Lopes 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.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Sampaio Corrêa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jardson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Jardson
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jardson, and the manager let it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Dimas 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 Dimas is on it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I want to play”: Heitor Gatti speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes Matheus Albino a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Sampaio Corrêa. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- The dugout Felipe Cauã asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Cavi talk will not go away