Hércules

Defensive Midfielder - Fluminense
20 Dec 2026
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Marked for Hércules

18 Edition

The Fluminense Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Nov 2026

A fracture rules Jemmes out for 110 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fluminense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match28 Nov 2026

Hulk leads the rout of Cruzeiro

3‑0, and Hulk took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Fluminense tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Hulk scores twice — 8.99

Two goals and a mark of 8.99 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market30 Nov 2026

Hulk has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fluminense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Marcelo Pitaluga says Fluminense went back on their word

“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.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Fluminense — 7.64

1 for Hércules, marked 7.64, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Fluminense

Martinelli 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Fluminense

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Acosta was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Defences have started doubling up on Hulk

12 goals and a season average of 7.23 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

In brief

  • The dugout A promise honoured at Fluminense
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Player ratings The pass was always on for Rodrigo Castillo
Back issues
16 Edition

The Fluminense Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad16 Nov 2026

Jemmes breaks a bone — 127 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 127 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Jefferson Savarino keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fluminense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Vintage Hulk — 7.85

At 40 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.85, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market16 Nov 2026

Only the photograph left for Renê

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Renê will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fluminense the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad16 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Fluminense

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Acosta was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Fluminense

Jemmes 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.

Match14 Nov 2026

Internacional take the points off Fluminense

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Hércules

“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.

The dugout16 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 João Soares to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

9 Edition

The Fluminense Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom28 Sep 2026

Renê has agreed to leave Fluminense for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Martinelli 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.

Market28 Sep 2026

Agner is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fluminense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad28 Sep 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Fluminense come up short against Corinthians

Corinthians left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Jefferson Savarino

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

Squad28 Sep 2026

Fluminense are still strangers to each other

13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

João Soares answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Martinelli 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