The Horizonte Chronicle
Market5 Jun 2028
Horizonte turn down Cianorte for Éder Souza
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
Nobody could get near Roberto Guimarães
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market5 Jun 2028
Juan Sebastián Sierra 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 Horizonte can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
The paperwork begins on Zanella
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Horizonte have done the hard part with Londrina, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Tempers go at Horizonte
Felipe Moura 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.
Match3 Jun 2028
Whatever happens, Horizonte do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Gabriel Fonseca 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.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
Paulo Machado 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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Igor Rocha out for 41 days
The medical room confirms 41 days on the sidelines for Igor Rocha, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
- Transfer targets Horizonte try to borrow Kauê Furquim
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Bence Gera
- The dugout The view from the dugout