Willian José

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Bahia
2 Feb 2027
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Marked for Willian José

24 Edition

The Bahia Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market11 Jan 2027

Gabriel Xavier asks to leave Bahia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market11 Jan 2027

Ronaldo’s move to Santos falls through

The deal that would have taken Ronaldo to Santos has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Bahia with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Bahia

Caio Alexandre was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Willian José gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Loan watch11 Jan 2027

9 goals on loan for Alejo Veliz

12 appearances at Rosario Central and the goals keep coming. Bahia are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Market11 Jan 2027

The Dyllan Bustamante conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Santa Cruz will make the call about Dyllan Bustamante this week. Bahia have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

  • Squad Ademir asks for a word with the manager
  • Market The Erick Pulga story refuses to die
  • Loan watch 5 goals on loan for Cauly
  • Squad A wage question at Bahia
Back issues
23 Edition

The Bahia Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market4 Jan 2027

Willian José puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bahia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad4 Jan 2027

The season belongs to Erick Pulga

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Bahia have had the benefit of it.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Rodrigo Nestor

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match2 Jan 2027

The wait goes on for Bahia

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Caio Alexandre in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad4 Jan 2027

João Paulo gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match2 Jan 2027

Bahia come up short against Atlético Mineiro

Atlético Mineiro left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market4 Jan 2027

Dyllan Bustamante attracts admirers

The name of Dyllan Bustamante has come up in conversations Bahia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Marcos Victor signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcos Victor commits to Bahia for another 3 years.

In brief

20 Edition

The Bahia Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom14 Dec 2026

Continental nights are coming to Bahia

Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.

Market14 Dec 2026

Santiago Ramos Mingo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bahia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Gabriel Xavier: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bahia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market14 Dec 2026

Bahia say no — this time

The offer from ABC for Román Gómez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Rodrigo Nestor runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Bahia

Caio Alexandre was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market14 Dec 2026

Gilberto wants more than Bahia are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Rodrigo Nestor stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rodrigo Nestor and Bahia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match12 Dec 2026

Bahia come up short against Fluminense

Fluminense left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

5 Edition

The Bahia Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Rodrigo Nestor runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match26 Aug 2026

Bahia bow out of the cup

Flamengo go through and Bahia go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market31 Aug 2026

Luciano Juba hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bahia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Caio Alexandre in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Erick Pulga in the eights

A performance of 8.62 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ademir in the eights

A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Willian José gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

The one thing Fernandão could not do

Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Match29 Aug 2026

Bahia and Fortaleza take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

4 Edition

The Bahia Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Caio Alexandre

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 49 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Ronaldo is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ronaldo: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Jean Lucas

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 37 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Santiago Ramos Mingo

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 36 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Match19 Aug 2026

Cup progress for Bahia

A 2‑2 win over Santos, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Bahia

Caio Alexandre was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match22 Aug 2026

Still nobody has beaten Bahia

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Erick Pulga

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match22 Aug 2026

Bahia find a way past Atlético Mineiro

Atlético Mineiro made Bahia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief