Monstro

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Marked for Monstro

74 Edition

The Tuna Luso Courier

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market27 Dec 2027

Bruno Cheron puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tuna Luso, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Lucca is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.16 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Tuna Luso know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Transfer targets27 Dec 2027

Tuna Luso rebuffed over Camargo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Confiança have kept their man, and Tuna Luso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad27 Dec 2027

A row about effort at Tuna Luso

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alfredo Báez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom27 Dec 2027

Wages eat 170% of everything Tuna Luso earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Market27 Dec 2027

Ryan Daniel attracts admirers

The name of Ryan Daniel has come up in conversations Tuna Luso were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market27 Dec 2027

Tuna Luso put Nicolás Gauna up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Nicolás Gauna may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Market27 Dec 2027

Gustavo Cañizales linked with a move away

The name of Gustavo Cañizales keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tuna Luso say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout27 Dec 2027

Santino Vacarezza knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tuna Luso, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
47 Edition

The Tuna Luso Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market21 Jun 2027

Lucas asks to leave Tuna Luso

“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.

Player ratings21 Jun 2027

Lucca, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74

A mark of 7.74 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match19 Jun 2027

Tuna Luso make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tuna Luso have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Tuna Luso

Dheimison 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.

Match19 Jun 2027

Tuna Luso get the job done against Manaus

A 2‑1 win over Manaus, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Tuna Luso lose Monstro

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market21 Jun 2027

Eyes on Brabo again

The phone has started ringing about Brabo again, and this time the name on the line is Retrô. Tuna Luso are listening politely and promising nothing.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

André Porto has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” André Porto on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

Lucca has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tuna Luso will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

38 Edition

The Tuna Luso Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Maikon Aquino: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tuna Luso have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Tuna Luso

Dheimison 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.

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Tuna Luso

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market19 Apr 2027

One of our own: Sérgio Amaral joins the Tuna Luso first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sérgio Amaral is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market19 Apr 2027

Tuna Luso promote Samuel Neves from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel Neves 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.

Market19 Apr 2027

Tuna Luso promote Alex Queiroz from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alex Queiroz 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.

Market19 Apr 2027

Monstro steps up from the Tuna Luso academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Monstro 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.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Dheimison

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dheimison, and the manager let it.

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

130% of the income goes out in wages at Tuna Luso

Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.

In brief