The União Gazette
Squad16 Apr 2029
Diego Otoya damages knee ligaments — 99 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 99 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
Santiago Bustos is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at União is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at União
Jardisson 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.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Graduation day at União
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Fabrício Moura falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Wages eat 213% of everything União earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market16 Apr 2029
One of our own: Matheus Oliveira joins the União first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matheus Oliveira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Apr 2029
Neyzinho steps up from the União academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Neyzinho 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
One of our own: André Cunha joins the União first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. André Cunha is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the União board did not keep
- Squad Carl Emil Lauridsen wants to go home
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at União