Hamilton Returns to Sport

Sport has signed Hamilton, who played an integral part of Sport's 2006 promotion campaign, for next year. Hamilton, a revelation in 2006, is an excellent defensive midfielder who relies more on his speed than on his positioning who is the very model of consistency on the field. Unfortunately, off the field he is also the very model of consistency -- he is always looking to make an extra real. There is still no news on the length of his contract, but it is almost impossible to believe that he would sign a contract longer than one year. At the end of 2006 he displayed bad faith in his negotiations with Sport (he was still under contract, but Sport agreed -- twice -- to his requests for raises) and was sold to a Turkish team. At the end of his contract in Turkey he returned to Brazil, rejecting a two-year contract with Sport to sign a short contract with Náutico where he played the last few months of the past Série A season. He will surely be a factor in whatever success Sport achieves in the next six months, and he will just as surely leave as soon as someone offers him more money. If bookies were taking bets on it, I would bet all I have that he will leave Brazil in July.