Joshua

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Free Agent
14 Aug 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Joshua

178 Edition

The Flamengo Herald

24 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Loan watch

40 goals on loan for Facundo Colidio

36 appearances at Nautico and the goals keep coming. Flamengo are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Market

Terms done: Matías Pérez is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Junior waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Flamengo is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Lorran says no to Paysandu

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Lorran had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Flamengo bid $4.3M for Arthur Sales

The offer went to Botafogo this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Eyes on Lucas Paquetá again

The phone has started ringing about Lucas Paquetá again, and this time the name on the line is Universidad de Chile. Flamengo are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Hugo Souza is a Flamengo player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

The dugout

Erick Pulgar: 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.” Flamengo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Casemiro, 37, rolls back the years — 8.12

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

A move Michel Araújo would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Michel Araújo is living that version at Flamengo, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief