“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mirassol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Antonio Galeano was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Santa Cruz will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Mirassol were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mirassol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mirassol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Marked 9.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Antonio Galeano was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Mirassol has been clear about where Yvann Konan stands, which is more than many ever get.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Negueba signs something — a contract at Mirassol or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Bahia go through and Mirassol go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mirassol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Bucharest can pretend not to have heard.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lorenzo Biliboc and Dinamo Bucharest agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Bucharest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Bucharest they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Bucharest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Bucharest they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Ignacio Duma and Dinamo Bucharest agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Marked 8.77 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The phone has started ringing about Mauro García again, and this time the name on the line is Astra. Dinamo Bucharest are listening politely and promising nothing.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Junio Lopes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Bucharest the goodbyes have quietly begun.
George Puşcaş was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Marked 9.25 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eddy Gnahoré and Dinamo Bucharest agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Junio Lopes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Bucharest the goodbyes have quietly begun.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Bucharest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Bucharest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Junio Lopes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Bucharest the goodbyes have quietly begun.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Dmitry Sadov has his answer from Dinamo Bucharest; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Bucharest they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Cătălin Cîrjan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dinamo Bucharest are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Bucharest know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Kennedy Boateng was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Bucharest they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Bucharest know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Benjamín Maliani trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
SquadDevis Epassy has seen what the next man earns