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The Santa Cruz de Natal Sentinel
8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
Raphael Soares damages knee ligaments — 106 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 106 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
An order from above at Santa Cruz de Natal: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Santa Cruz de Natal
Jeremías Vargas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Santa Cruz de Natal
- Market One of our own: Willian Carvalho joins the Santa Cruz de Natal first team
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Pedro Xavier
- Squad Pedro Xavier has had enough of the bench