The Ceará Chronicle
Market27 Dec 2027
Lucas Mugni 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 The request is on a desk at Ceará, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market27 Dec 2027
Alejandro Avallay is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ceará is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
No thanks: Tomás Molina rejects the move
Ceará had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Argentinos Juniors, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Loan watch27 Dec 2027
Lucca keeps scoring at Yunnan Yukun
28 appearances away from home and 17 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A falling-out at Ceará
Pedro Augusto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market27 Dec 2027
Fernando 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 Ceará can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
Door shut on Joaquín García
Ceará asked and Estudiantes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market27 Dec 2027
One of our own: José Lima joins the Ceará first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. José Lima is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Ceará
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fernando was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Squad Ceará count the cost of losing Martins
- Transfer targets Ceará ask about Nail Umyarov
- Transfer targets Ceará ask about Ignacio Molina