Marked for Ademir
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Bahia
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Bahia is running low.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Bahia
Jean Lucas 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kauê Furquim is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market5 Apr 2027
Martim Fernandes 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 Bahia hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Danilo signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Danilo commits to Bahia for another 2 years.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Bahia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ademir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Altos to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bahia and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
Market5 Apr 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market5 Apr 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bahia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Bahia
Caio Alexandre and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Ademir 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.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
Victor wants to come home
“I did not go to Goiânia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bahia and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
Market22 Mar 2027
The Erick Pulga talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bahia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market22 Mar 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Erick Pulga may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
7 appearances at Rosario Central and the goals keep coming. Bahia are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Bahia
Jean Lucas and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Ademir 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.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Bahia, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Ademir asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market15 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Santiago Ramos Mingo signs something — a contract at Bahia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Bahia would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market15 Mar 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Santiago Ramos Mingo may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Martim Fernandes has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Bahia that is a harder question to answer.
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Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Everton Ribeiro commits to Bahia for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Bahia
Jean Lucas 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.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
“I watch every Bahia game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Altos runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Ademir 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 Bahia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bahia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Bahia would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Squad1 Mar 2027
Jean Lucas 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Bahia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ademir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Bahia, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad1 Mar 2027
6 new faces, and Bahia are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Jean Lucas 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 Bahia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market1 Mar 2027
Jean Lucas linked with a move away
The name of Jean Lucas keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bahia say nothing, which says plenty.
Market1 Mar 2027
Bahia have made Caio Alexandre available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Bahia would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
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Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Bahia
Caio Alexandre and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market22 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Antônio Araujo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market22 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Henrique Fonseca has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market22 Feb 2027
Pitbull steps up from the Bahia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pitbull has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market22 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Risadinha has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Ademir 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.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
Victor wants to come home
“I did not go to Goiânia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bahia and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Jean Lucas knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jean Lucas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Bahia
Jean Lucas 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ademir 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.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Bahia, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bahia told Gabriel Xavier something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Erick Pulga knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Erick Pulga trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad8 Feb 2027
No place for Arthur Dias in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Bahia are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Jean Lucas 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Arthur Dias arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Arthur Dias has, at Bahia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Bahia asked and Botafogo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Bahia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ademir 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Arthur Dias is 19, and Bahia have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I watch every Bahia game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Altos runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Market11 Jan 2027
AEK come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Bahia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market11 Jan 2027
Danilo 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Bahia have gone to Operário Ferroviário with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market11 Jan 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Wesley Moraes arrives at Bahia in a $4.5M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Bahia have paid $4.5M for Wesley Moraes, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Bahia
Jean Lucas 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Bahia offered $50.0K; Criciúma said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Danilo is slowing down
At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A club from his own country has asked the question, and he has never pretended he did not want to be asked. Bahia have a conversation ahead of them that they will not win with money.
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Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Acevedo
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bahia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market23 Nov 2026
Ronaldo 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Bahia
Caio Alexandre and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ademir beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Bahia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean Lucas 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Cruzeiro left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Alex Martins to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Santiago Ramos Mingo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
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Squad9 Nov 2026
Jean Lucas 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Bahia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Everton Ribeiro 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Jean Lucas 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Douglas Cavalcante is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Márcio Batista is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market9 Nov 2026
Destro steps up from the Bahia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Destro has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Cunha has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match7 Nov 2026
Fluminense left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Alex Martins left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
A hiding for Bahia
Beaten 0‑4 by Vasco da Gama, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Willian José: 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Bahia
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Bahia are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a goal for Bahia
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Bahia
Jean Lucas 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Zé Guilherme is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Bahia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Everton Ribeiro 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ademir
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Bahia dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Erick is still paying for one afternoon at Bahia
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Market
Still no ink between Bahia and Gabriel Xavier
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Jean Lucas, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jean Lucas 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Olivera, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bahia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mateo Sanabria 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
No place for Zé Guilherme in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Zé Guilherme has his answer from Bahia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Caio Alexandre keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bahia say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Vasco da Gama in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.