The Humaitá Courier
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Door shut on Alex Silva
Humaitá asked and Itabaiana said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Humaitá
Victtor Chaves 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: José Gomes joins the Humaitá first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. José Gomes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Humaitá promote Wesley Borges from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Wesley Borges 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The window shuts on the Fábio Freitas deal
Humaitá ran out of time with Central. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Humaitá
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vinícius Barbosa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ezequiel Pizarro signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ezequiel Pizarro and Humaitá agree another 4 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
No place for Ezequiel Pizarro in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Humaitá are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
João Barbosa gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout Júnior Nogueira knocks on the manager's door
- Market Humaitá shop where it costs nothing
- Market Jane Moreno leaves for nothing