The Figueirense Sentinel
The dugout20 Nov 2034
Júnior Lima says Figueirense went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad20 Nov 2034
Words exchanged at Figueirense
Agustín Reule 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.
Squad20 Nov 2034
Words at Figueirense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Breno 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.
Boardroom20 Nov 2034
Figueirense are $38.6M in the red
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Squad20 Nov 2034
Figueirense count the cost of losing Denilson
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout20 Nov 2034
Wesley Costa has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Figueirense will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout20 Nov 2034
The manager makes an example of Daniel Rocha
“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.
The dugout20 Nov 2034
The manager has not finished forgetting Juan Da Rosa's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market20 Nov 2034
The Breno question follows Figueirense around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Breno’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Match Continental football is in reach for Figueirense
- Squad Daniel Rocha: “I am not a substitute”
- Market Ignacio Neira placed on the list