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384 Edition

The Ituano Sentinel

5 Dec 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom5 Dec 2033

Ituano put Interim Coach on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Match5 Dec 2033

The season ends: position 10 for Ituano

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 50 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Market5 Dec 2033

Risadinha turns Manaus down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

The dugout5 Dec 2033

Ignacio Salvatierra: 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.” Ituano have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market5 Dec 2033

Georgemy 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 Ituano can pretend not to have heard.

Market5 Dec 2033

Itabirito come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Ituano did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market5 Dec 2033

Samuel Santos is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ituano is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom5 Dec 2033

Belts tighten at Ituano

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

Squad5 Dec 2033

Rafael Rech falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

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371 Edition

The Ituano Sentinel

5 Sep 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom5 Sep 2033

Ituano put Interim Coach on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market5 Sep 2033

Pedro Jesus 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 Ituano, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market5 Sep 2033

Only the photograph left for André Andrade

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. André Andrade will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ituano the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom5 Sep 2033

Willian Bezerra has agreed to leave Ituano for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad5 Sep 2033

Words exchanged at Ituano

Rafael Rech 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.

Squad5 Sep 2033

Matías Alaniz is slowing down

At 34, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad5 Sep 2033

Risadinha is the division's best young player this month

At 18 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Ituano will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Squad5 Sep 2033

Wallace signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Wallace and Ituano agree another 2 years.

The dugout5 Sep 2033

The manager's exit leaves Adryelson exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Adryelson is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Ktatau's mistake
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Jean Ubá
  • Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Ituano
331 Edition

The Ituano Sentinel

29 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad29 Nov 2032

8 saves: Walter Molina was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market29 Nov 2032

Pedro Ariel 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 Ituano can pretend not to have heard.

Market29 Nov 2032

Víctor Lanosa has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ituano they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad29 Nov 2032

A falling-out at Ituano

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

Squad29 Nov 2032

A row about effort at Ituano

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rafael Rech was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout29 Nov 2032

No hiding place for Iago Oliveira

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iago Oliveira, and the manager let it.

Match27 Nov 2032

Ituano share the spoils with Amazonas

A 1‑1 draw with Amazonas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout29 Nov 2032

Luis Felipe gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Luis Felipe is on it.

The dugout29 Nov 2032

Interim Coach: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief