Danilo Assis

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The Lagarto Gazette

25 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom25 Oct 2032

Pressure builds in the Lagarto boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom25 Oct 2032

Wages swallow 329% of the Lagarto income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad25 Oct 2032

A row about effort at Lagarto

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

Player ratings25 Oct 2032

Nothing got past William

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad25 Oct 2032

Ruan Assis is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.21 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

The dugout25 Oct 2032

No hiding place for Fernando Viana

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fernando Viana, and the manager let it.

Player ratings25 Oct 2032

The afternoon belonged to Eric Vieira

A mark of 7.58, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout25 Oct 2032

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Interim Coach chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout25 Oct 2032

Somebody else is better right now than Danilo Assis

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

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The Lagarto Gazette

11 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Oct 2032

A row about effort at Lagarto

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

The dugout11 Oct 2032

João Barbosa is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Boardroom11 Oct 2032

Nobody arrives at Lagarto until somebody leaves

The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Lagarto this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.

The dugout11 Oct 2032

João Pereira 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.

Looking ahead11 Oct 2032

Ícaro faces his old club

Santa Cruz de Natal next, and one man in the Lagarto dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market11 Oct 2032

The Gabriel Terra question follows Lagarto around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gabriel Terra’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout11 Oct 2032

Danilo Assis 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 Lagarto, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market11 Oct 2032

The shop window has Diego Fernandes in it

Lagarto have let the market know Diego Fernandes can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Boardroom11 Oct 2032

The Lagarto production line keeps running

56 graduates out of an academy now rated 4 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief