The Fluminense Post
Market28 Dec 2026
Ignacio 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 Fluminense can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Dec 2026
Fluminense say no — this time
The offer from Bragantino for Kelwin 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Luciano Acosta falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Jefferson Savarino
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Gustavo Ramalho has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Jemmes 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 Fluminense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
No hiding place for Otávio
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Otávio, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Nothing got past Guilherme Arana
15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Match26 Dec 2026
Point won or two lost for Fluminense?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Vitória? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Julián Millán
- Market The shop window has Otávio in it
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Lelê’s exile