Tuta

Striker - Grêmio U18
7 Jul 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Tuta

124 Edition

The Grêmio Herald

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Volta Redonda come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Grêmio did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Tuta 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 Grêmio can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Francis Amuzu wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

Kayky is a medical away from Grêmio

The deal with Bahia is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Wagner Leonardo 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 Grêmio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Grêmio baulk at the price for César Augusto

Cuiabá wanted more than $130.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Words at Grêmio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel Monsalve 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Marcos Leonardo

Grêmio asked and Ajax said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Erick Noriega gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Erick Noriega is on it.

In brief

Back issues
92 Edition

The Grêmio Herald

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

A brace, and André Henrique takes the afternoon — 8.78

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. André Henrique provided it, and the 8.78 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

The drought breaks for Grêmio

8 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Corinthians were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Squad

Tempers go at Grêmio

Mathías Villasanti 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.

Match

André Henrique sends Grêmio past Corinthians

It finished 2‑0, and it was André Henrique’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Grêmio.

Match

Grêmio come up short against Cruzeiro

Cruzeiro left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

João Pedro is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Grêmio has been clear about where João Pedro stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

Tuta signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tuta commits to Grêmio for another 3 years.

Loan watch

Lucca counts the days

“I watch every Grêmio 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.

Squad

Martin Braithwaite slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Martin Braithwaite is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

In brief

90 Edition

The Grêmio Herald

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for Grêmio

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Grêmio are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Grêmio

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

A row about effort at Grêmio

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

Squad

A falling-out at Grêmio

Martin Braithwaite and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Grêmio promote Vinícius Mendes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vinícius Mendes has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Guilherme Barbosa joins the Grêmio first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Guilherme Barbosa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Fernando Rocha steps up from the Grêmio academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fernando Rocha has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Grêmio promote Tuta from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tuta has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad

200 appearances for Tetê

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

In brief