The Sport Recife Courier
Squad24 Mar 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel Barbosa
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sport Recife lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Mar 2031
Nahuel Soria asks to leave Sport Recife
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom24 Mar 2031
Sport Recife to lose Branquinho for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Branquinho has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad24 Mar 2031
Words exchanged at Sport Recife
Nahuel Ferraresi 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.
Squad24 Mar 2031
A row about effort at Sport Recife
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sabino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Mar 2031
Lucca 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.
The dugout24 Mar 2031
Praxedes 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.
Market24 Mar 2031
The Praxedes question follows Sport Recife around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Praxedes’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad24 Mar 2031
International call for Nahuel Ferraresi
Nahuel Ferraresi joins up with his country. Sport Recife lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
In brief
- The dugout Thiaguinho has been promised minutes
- Boardroom The Sport Recife production line keeps running
- The dugout The manager comes out for Nahuel Soria