Year End News

Sportnet's headline reads "Sport Agrees to Terms with Six Athletes" and then goes on to say that the club will announce their names only after they have signed the contracts. As you may remember from a little while back, Sport had supposedly already signed seven players, not one of whom has yet put pen to paper.

Carlinhos Bala has, according to Globo, accepted Botafogo's proposal. However, also according to Globo, Cruzeiro has transfered four players to Botafogo, Weldon among them. Globo, once more, reports that Weldon's arrival precludes that of Carlinhos Bala. Weldon's agent, according to Globo, says that his client has yet to agree to a salary, and that he won't necessarily go to Botafogo. Globo prefers novelas to soccer, and this saga must be delighting the company's executives.