Corinthians chief: Transfer ban gone by December, strong 2026 youth side

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·26 November 2025

Corinthians chief: Transfer ban gone by December, strong 2026 youth side

By Henrique Pereira / Central do Timão Editorial Team

The Paulista Football Federation (FPF) held the event for the launch of Copinha 2026 on the evening of last Tuesday (25). After the event, Osmar Stabile, president of Corinthians, spoke about the transfer ban situation the team is facing and projected a solution later this year.

“Regarding the transfer ban, we have been working day and night to resolve payment issues for the cases we have ahead of us. There are a few others we are also dealing with, such as the case of Rojas, which we are already negotiating. We want to resolve this matter by December.”, said Stabile.

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The president also spoke about the restructuring that Corinthians is undergoing in its youth divisions. According to Osmar Stabile, the changes will not affect the team that will compete in the São Paulo Junior Football Cup.

“We have the under-20 team assembled, the team is working normally, so what we have is prepared to win Copinha again, there is no problem at all. The entire restructuring of youth football is being done, in all teams, we have under-20, under-17, and under-15 as usual. The department is really bloated, we need to reduce it, but there’s no problem, it’s all within the plan, within what was pre-established.”, he commented.

Next, the Timão president also spoke about the possibility of some young players being absent, since Copinha will be played almost simultaneously with the professional Paulista Championship. Stabile pointed out that it is likely this will happen, but that the youth team is prepared to handle it.

“We have a huge number of players prepared to participate in both Copinha and the Paulista Championship. Not to mention that we have other players who came up from the youth and are now in the professional squad. 35% of the professional squad today is made up of Corinthians’ youth players, never before have there been so many youth athletes playing in the professional team. We are preparing players who I am absolutely sure will become high-level players in the future.”, the president pointed out.

In Copinha, Corinthians landed in the group with XV de Jaú, Trindade-GO, and Luverdense-MT, based in the city of Jaú, in the central-west region of São Paulo state. The competition will begin on January 2, with the schedule yet to be released by the federation.

Check out other topics addressed by Osmar Stabile:

Statute vote postponed by the Deliberative Council:

“The meeting took place and the council understood that no agenda should be voted on at that moment, so that the topics presented there could be discussed in depth. I believe this needs to be resolved as quickly as possible, in the fastest way possible, and the president of Corinthians continues working regardless of the statute. We have to work, we have to restructure the administrative and financial areas, and we are doing this intensely.”

Fine for José Martínez:

“We talked, Dorival Júnior, Fabinho Soldado, and I, and we decided to fine the player and that’s it. Moving on, let’s focus on the next game, in a few days there will be another game and we’ll close this subject, which has already been resolved, everything is fine.”

Changes in the social club and possible closure of the basketball team:

“The cost of football today, we’re talking about basketball, volleyball, which isn’t operating at the moment, but the overall cost of the social club is very high. The social club won’t solve the problems, but as I said in that press conference, we said Corinthians was a water tank full of holes, and we are plugging those holes continuously, we are reducing costs in all departments. It started in the youth, now it’s in the professional, we’ve reduced the payroll by about three million. In the social area, we’re also reducing, some athletes who weren’t being used in the social club have already left, and others will leave too. Basketball is a special case, and it will still continue for a good while, and we are looking for partners right now to keep it from freezing. We are working so that it doesn’t freeze and continues in a way that it becomes self-sufficient.”

Separation of club costs by department:

“This administrative restructuring is happening, we are assigning everyone to their proper cost center, so we can really know the cost of each department. Those who work with football are going to the football cost center, those in the Arena are going to the Arena cost center, and those in the youth are going to the youth cost center. So we are doing this administrative restructuring to perfectly understand where the costs are. This work is being done, it takes a while, the financial restructuring is also being done and it’s an ongoing job. I tell you that right now it’s like we’re still laying the pipe, the water should gush out up ahead, now is the time for work, for dedication to restructure all departments.”

Audit that pointed to shirt misappropriation by Armando Mendonça, Corinthians vice-president:

“We received the report and, in light of everything that was happening, we forwarded it to the Justice Committee, and it’s the Justice Committee that will take the appropriate measures.”

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