Gui

Central Defender - Porto Velho U20
23 Nov 2032
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Gui

234 Edition

The Porto Velho Herald

20 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A falling-out at Porto Velho

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

Boardroom

Wages eat 133% of everything Porto Velho 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.

Squad

Words at Porto Velho training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Richard Gonzalez 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.

The dugout

Pedro Porto is still paying for one afternoon at Porto Velho

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market

The Antônio story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Antônio signs something — a contract at Porto Velho or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Porto Velho put Gui up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Gui may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout

Douglas Cavalcante knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Douglas Cavalcante trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Danilo Santos runs his contract down

6 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Porto Velho money.

Boardroom

Porto Velho keep producing them

49 graduates from an academy now rated 7 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

In brief

Back issues
232 Edition

The Porto Velho Herald

6 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Porto Velho can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom

Emergency meeting at Porto Velho

The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Diego Moreira rejects the move

Porto Velho had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ponte Preta, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Tempers go at Porto Velho

Antônio 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.

The dugout

Douglas Cavalcante frozen out at Porto Velho

This is not rotation. Douglas Cavalcante has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Porto Velho is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom

$172.3K from the owner keeps Porto Velho afloat

The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.

Market

The ambition of Joao Costa outgrows Porto Velho early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

Boardroom

Embargo at Porto Velho

No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.

The dugout

Henrique Ribeiro 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.

In brief