Photo with Arboleda seals it: São Paulo won't fight to 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 interacts normally with the rest of the squad. He showed a bit of a lack of common sense,” said one person 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 list for the match.

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

The defender, who has returned to Tricolor, is regarded as the main figure bringing together the boys from the youth academy, with his playful and easygoing manner, and he is very popular with the Made in Cotia group. Maik is one of them.

Be that as it may, the board believes there are no grounds for 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 representatives received contact from Basel, in Switzerland, and things are moving toward a proposal for the 21-year-old player being made in the next transfer window, during the World Cup.

Arboleda returned and defined his future with São Paulo this week. The Ecuadorian will be fined and will train separately at the Barra Funda training center until the transfer window, when he will be transferred.

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