The Barcelona de Ilhéus Post
Match9 Sep 2030
Every point is an argument now for Barcelona de Ilhéus
Position 16 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market9 Sep 2030
Dejan Grillitsch 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 The request is on a desk at Barcelona de Ilhéus, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout9 Sep 2030
Gabriel Oliveira: 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.” Barcelona de Ilhéus have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Words exchanged at Barcelona de Ilhéus
Digão and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad9 Sep 2030
César Urpín wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Barcelona de Ilhéus can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Tiago Alves falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom9 Sep 2030
Wages eat 136% of everything Barcelona de Ilhéus 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.
Looking ahead9 Sep 2030
Everything rides on Penedense
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Barcelona de Ilhéus know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
Boardroom9 Sep 2030
The Barcelona de Ilhéus debt reaches $4.9M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
In brief
- Squad Barcelona de Ilhéus count the cost of losing Samuel Borges
- The dugout Gabriel Lopes gets it from the manager
- The dugout Charles Raphael asks for a word with the manager