Daniel Bezerra

Striker - Grêmio
16 Apr 2036
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Bezerra

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The Grêmio Herald

25 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 dugout

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 dugout

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.

Market

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

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The Grêmio Herald

16 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Cauê says no to América de Natal

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Cauê had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Grêmio agree $3.8M for Newertton

The clubs have shaken hands with Sport Recife; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

Daniel Bezerra has said yes to Monte Azul

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Grêmio have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Only the photograph left for Luiz Yano

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luiz Yano will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Grêmio the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

Vintage Talisson Almeida — 8.12

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.12, and nobody on the pitch better.

Player ratings

Riquelme beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

São Paulo tell Grêmio: Wesley Natã is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Rodrigo Gomes asks to leave Grêmio

“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.

Boardroom

Tortello has agreed to leave Grêmio 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.

In brief