The CSA Herald
Market18 Feb 2036
Adriano Bispo is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at CSA is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad18 Feb 2036
A falling-out at CSA
Arielson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Feb 2036
Gabriel Correia arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Gabriel Correia has, at CSA, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad18 Feb 2036
A row about effort at CSA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Souza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Feb 2036
Julian Rodriguez 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.
Market18 Feb 2036
A long bet from CSA on Bicho
He is 20, and nobody at CSA signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad18 Feb 2036
Gabriel Correia signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriel Correia commits to CSA for another 2 years.
Market18 Feb 2036
CSA bring in an old head
Pará is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market18 Feb 2036
The David Souza talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. CSA know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout Tiago has been promised minutes
- The dugout Ryan Gabriel knocks on the manager's door
- Match A season winding down at CSA