Malvado

Central Midfielder - Penedense
3 Jul 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Malvado

144 Edition

The Penedense Sentinel

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Penedense

0‑3 against Jequié, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market

Only the photograph left for Guilherme Ivo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guilherme Ivo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Penedense the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Penedense

Sebastián Martínez 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Showman

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

Boardroom

Doors closed at Penedense

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

João Souza answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Henrique Capela 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 Penedense, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Words at Penedense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malvado 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.

Squad

A Penedense teenager takes the young player award

Pedro Moreira is 18, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

In brief

Back issues
138 Edition

The Penedense Sentinel

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Penedense board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

Penedense sink to position 15

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Johnson 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 Penedense can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Riquelme Mendes frozen out at Penedense

This is not rotation. Riquelme Mendes has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Penedense is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words at Penedense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastián Martínez 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Penedense

Dimitris Floros 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.

Loan watch

Cândido Júnior counts the days

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

The dugout

Henrique Capela 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 Penedense, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

No hiding place for Malvado

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

In brief

126 Edition

The Penedense Sentinel

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Penedense board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

Penedense are in real trouble now

Position 15, 13 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

The dugout

Riquelme Mendes frozen out at Penedense

This is not rotation. Riquelme Mendes has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Penedense is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Leozão 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 Penedense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Penedense rebuffed over Martins

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Malvado

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The Edinho question follows Penedense around

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

Market

Still no ink between Penedense and Cândido Júnior

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Penedense, another week without a signature from Cândido Júnior.

Market

Sebastián Martínez placed on the list

Penedense have made Sebastián Martínez available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief