Photo with Arboleda angers board, São Paulo won't keep Maik | OneFootball

São Paulo’s board did not like at all the photo posted by right-back Maik alongside Arboleda at the Barra Funda training center on Wednesday (6).

AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR has learned that the entire squad was well aware that the 34-year-old center-back’s decision to abandon the club for nearly a month did not deserve even the slightest sign of leniency.

And Maik’s photo next to his friend was understood in exactly that way. The report heard terms such as “affront” and “indiscipline.”

“The impression it gave was that Arboleda still has a normal relationship with the rest of the squad. He showed a bit of a lack of self-awareness,” said a source heard by AMT.

According to what was gathered, Maik took advantage of the fact that the entire football board was traveling with the squad to Chile, where Tricolor faces O’Higgins in the Copa Sudamericana tonight. The full-back was at Reffis undergoing treatment for muscle pain that kept him off the squad list for the match.

Internal information from the club indicates that the attitude of the “crazy cool” center-back did not go over well with the squad, which repudiated it. However, it seems Arboleda’s affection for the youngsters coming from Cotia remains strong.

The defender, who has returned to Tricolor, is seen as the main figure bringing together the boys coming up from the academy, with his playful and easygoing manner, and he is much loved by the Made in Cotia group. Maik is one of them.

Be that as it may, the board believes there are no grounds for a more effective punishment for Maik. But the photo should earn him the worst kind of punishment: loss of prestige. And the understanding is that no major efforts will be made to keep him in the squad. His loss of space under coach Roger Machado is evident.

AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR revealed last month that the full-back’s staff received contact from Basel, of Switzerland, and things are moving toward a proposal being made for the 21-year-old player in the next transfer window, during the World Cup.

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