Maluco

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
17 Mar 2033
Thursday
Process

Marked for Maluco

256 Edition

The Aparecidense Chronicle

23 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Maluco damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Market

Fabricio Díaz 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 Aparecidense can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Ricardo Luz breaks a bone — 49 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Gabriel Braga: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aparecidense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Paulo Nogueira

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Paulo Nogueira will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aparecidense the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Kawê

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Aparecidense have done the hard part with Caxias, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Words exchanged at Aparecidense

Leonel Sánchez 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.

Transfer targets

Aparecidense rebuffed over Heitor Gatti

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

Match

Aparecidense come up short against Boavista

Boavista left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout A promise honoured for Fabricio Díaz
  • Squad No place for Cavalo in the new shape
Back issues
255 Edition

The Aparecidense Chronicle

16 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Maluco damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Match

Nobody wins at Aparecidense

16 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

56 days out for Ricardo Luz after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Aparecidense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Cavalo gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Cavalo has just signed for Aparecidense, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Paulo Nogueira 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 Aparecidense can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Aparecidense

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

Transfer targets

Aparecidense rebuffed over Yan

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

Transfer targets

A loan move for Guilherme Aquino is in the works

Aparecidense have made the call to Coritiba. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

A long bet from Aparecidense on Rodrygo Correia

He is 19, and nobody at Aparecidense signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief