Guga

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20 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Guga

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The Fluminense Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

A European night to remember for Fluminense

0‑0 against Universidad Catolica, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nonato

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

4 matches without a win for Fluminense

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fluminense are no longer polite ones.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Fluminense

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Words at Fluminense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luciano Acosta is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Tempers go at Fluminense

Jemmes 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Fluminense against Palmeiras

0‑1 to Palmeiras, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Jemmes 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.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Martinelli's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

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The Fluminense Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Fluminense do the business in Europe

0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Fluminense came through the finding-out well against Nacional.

Player ratings

Hulk, 40, rolls back the years — 7.81

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.81 at 40, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Agustín Canobbio runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

Hulk the difference as Fluminense beat Botafogo

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Hulk. 1‑0 against Botafogo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

No hiding place for Guilherme Arana

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guilherme Arana, and the manager let it.

Squad

Hulk left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Hulk will call it something else in private.

Player ratings

Guga was the difference for Fluminense

Marked 7.51. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

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The Fluminense Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Luciano Acosta wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Fluminense hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Thiago Silva signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Thiago Silva and Fluminense agree another 2 years.

Squad

Thiago Silva 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Fluminense

Alisson 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.

Match

Fluminense get the job done against Bahia

A 1‑0 win over Bahia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Jefferson Savarino 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.

Market

Still no ink between Fluminense and Thiago Silva

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fluminense, another week without a signature from Thiago Silva.

Player ratings

Nonato runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Luciano Acosta knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fluminense, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Market Still no signature from Hulk
  • Market Nobody at Fluminense has picked up the phone to David Terans
  • Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Guga