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Marked for Brabo

338 Edition

The Tuna Luso Courier

17 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Jan 2033

A fracture rules Ronaldinho out for 78 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tuna Luso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market17 Jan 2033

Brabo asks to leave Tuna Luso

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad17 Jan 2033

A falling-out at Tuna Luso

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

Squad17 Jan 2033

Words at Tuna Luso training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas André 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.

Transfer targets17 Jan 2033

Door shut on Ricardo

Tuna Luso asked and Ypiranga said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad17 Jan 2033

The decline has begun for Sebastián Viveros

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Tuna Luso is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Boardroom17 Jan 2033

Tuna Luso are $14.4M 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.

The dugout17 Jan 2033

Caíque Takada 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 Caíque Takada trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market17 Jan 2033

Experience through the door at Tuna Luso

Leandro Ledesma arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief

Back issues
316 Edition

The Tuna Luso Courier

16 Aug 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad16 Aug 2032

Matheus Albino damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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 Aug 2032

Yago Henrique puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tuna Luso, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout16 Aug 2032

Juan Tobón keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tuna Luso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad16 Aug 2032

Words exchanged at Tuna Luso

Ceará 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.

Squad16 Aug 2032

A move Brabo would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Brabo is living that version at Tuna Luso, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match14 Aug 2032

Tuna Luso come up short against Lagarto

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

The dugout16 Aug 2032

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.

Market16 Aug 2032

Tuna Luso sign Zequinha, one for the future

Zequinha is 18, and Tuna Luso have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market16 Aug 2032

Tuna Luso sign Renato Xavier, one for the future

Renato Xavier is 19, and Tuna Luso have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

256 Edition

The Independência Herald

23 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Jun 2031

A knee injury of the worst kind for Guilherme Vieira

36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independência lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match21 Jun 2031

10 matches without a win for Independência

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Independência are no longer polite ones.

Market23 Jun 2031

Júnior Saudade asks to leave Independência

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets23 Jun 2031

Alex Payares due for a Independência medical

Everything agreed with Figueirense, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad23 Jun 2031

A falling-out at Independência

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

Transfer targets23 Jun 2031

Independência rebuffed over Pedro Vinicius

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

Boardroom23 Jun 2031

Independência cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

Player ratings23 Jun 2031

Ninety minutes of Vinicius Belotti at his very best

Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Independência.

Boardroom23 Jun 2031

Independência are $5.9M 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.

In brief