The Bahia Courier
Market22 Oct 2029
Rodrigo Nestor 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 The request is on a desk at Bahia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market22 Oct 2029
Only the photograph left for Facundo Krüger
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Facundo Krüger will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bahia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Oct 2029
Everton Ribeiro pulls a muscle — 17 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 17 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match20 Oct 2029
The wait goes on for Bahia
4 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.
Squad22 Oct 2029
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.
Match20 Oct 2029
Rodrigo Nestor’s goal not enough for Bahia
Rodrigo Nestor scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Corinthians, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout22 Oct 2029
No hiding place for Guido Herrera
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guido Herrera, and the manager let it.
Squad22 Oct 2029
A row about effort at Bahia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cauly was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings22 Oct 2029
A masterclass from Rodrigo Nestor
Marked 8.01 — 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.
In brief
- Player ratings The game went through Nathan Fogaça — 6.72
- Player ratings Ademir did the work nobody counts — 7.38
- Squad Danilo Xavier out for 37 days