Gerald

Central Defender - Bahia U20
1 Jan 2030
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Marked for Gerald

179 Edition

The Bahia Courier

31 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match29 Dec 2029

A hiding for Bahia

Beaten 0‑3 by Bragantino, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market31 Dec 2029

Rodrigo Nestor is on his way

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

Match29 Dec 2029

The wait goes on for Bahia

7 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.

Market31 Dec 2029

Bahia turn down Nautico for Inti López

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom31 Dec 2029

Bahia to lose Gerald for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Gerald has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad31 Dec 2029

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.

Match29 Dec 2029

The goals have deserted Bahia

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bahia can tell you which week it ends in.

Transfer targets31 Dec 2029

Door shut on Francesco Castaldo

Bahia asked and Mansfield Town said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout31 Dec 2029

The manager makes an example of Guido Herrera

“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.

In brief

  • Squad Cauly falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Market Lucca attracts admirers
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Bahia dressing room in a hurry
Back issues
91 Edition

The Bahia Courier

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market24 Apr 2028

Only the photograph left for Elias Franco

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

Squad24 Apr 2028

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.

Market24 Apr 2028

Gerald comes home

The shirt still fits. Gerald is back at Bahia, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Gerald 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. Gerald has, at Bahia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad24 Apr 2028

A row about effort at Bahia

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

Match22 Apr 2028

Bahia get the job done against Vitória

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

Player ratings24 Apr 2028

A masterclass from Rodrigo Nestor

Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout24 Apr 2028

Erick 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.

Market24 Apr 2028

Iago Borduchi told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Iago Borduchi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Bahia.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Zé Ricardo dropped after a run of poor form
  • Squad The formation has left Gerald behind