The Trem Chronicle
Squad6 Dec 2027
Luca Porretta damages knee ligaments — 40 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 40 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.
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
Trem put Paulo Rangel on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market6 Dec 2027
Cristiano Guimarães hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Trem can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Magdiel 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 Trem this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market6 Dec 2027
Ruy is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Trem has been clear about where Ruy stands, which is more than many ever get.
Transfer targets6 Dec 2027
Trem try to borrow Júnior Nardo
Central have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad6 Dec 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Ramiro Castiñeira
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ramiro Castiñeira has come out of that comparison in the side, and Trem have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Renato without the man who signed him
Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Renato was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Fernando Macedo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout Renato Rangel is still paying for one afternoon at Trem
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Danilo Araujo
- Market Luca Porretta linked with a move away