The Grêmio Herald
Squad25 Feb 2036
Mateus Guimarães damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Squad25 Feb 2036
A fracture rules Mateo Casas out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Grêmio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market25 Feb 2036
Daniel Bezerra is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Grêmio is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad25 Feb 2036
Pinna in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Grêmio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Feb 2036
A row about effort at Grêmio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Japa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Feb 2036
No hiding place for Gustavo Veiga
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustavo Veiga, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Feb 2036
When it matters, Ryan Gomez plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout25 Feb 2036
The manager makes Mateus Jorge a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Grêmio. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market25 Feb 2036
The Wagner Leonardo question follows Grêmio around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Wagner Leonardo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Javier Márquez knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Still no signature from Caio Araújo
- Boardroom The Grêmio academy earns its keep