Júnior Lopes

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139 Edition

The Maranhão Herald

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Mar 2029

Erivélton damages knee ligaments — 122 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 122 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.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Tempers go at Maranhão

Fellipe 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.

The dugout26 Mar 2029

Kauã Alves 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.

Loan watch26 Mar 2029

Uriel González counts the days

“I watch every Maranhão game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Athletic Club runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout26 Mar 2029

When it matters, Lucas plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout26 Mar 2029

Alyson 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 Maranhão, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad26 Mar 2029

A row about effort at Maranhão

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

Market26 Mar 2029

Alyson linked with a move away

The name of Alyson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Maranhão say nothing, which says plenty.

Market26 Mar 2029

The clock does Matías Gauto’s negotiating for him

3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Maranhão could ask drops and the wages Matías Gauto can ask rise.

In brief

  • Squad The penny has dropped for Mansur
  • Boardroom The Maranhão production line keeps running
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Thiago Barbosa
Back issues
128 Edition

The Maranhão Herald

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 Jan 2029

The knee: Cristian Ramírez out for 33 days

33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Maranhão lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom8 Jan 2029

Maranhão spell it out for Samuel Borges

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Samuel Borges has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market8 Jan 2029

Luciano Rodríguez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Maranhão is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Fellipe in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maranhão this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets8 Jan 2029

Maranhão rebuffed over Gabriel Souza

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

Market8 Jan 2029

Erivélton already looking beyond Maranhão

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

Boardroom8 Jan 2029

Maranhão have to sell first

The manager has a list and the board has a condition attached to it. That is not a crisis — half of football works this way — but it decides which of the two of them gets his way in August.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Words at Maranhão training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Júnior Lopes is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Thiago Barbosa: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Maranhão will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief