Branquinho

Left Forward - Fluminense
27 Aug 2028
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Marked for Branquinho

105 Edition

The Fluminense Post

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match26 Jul 2028

Bruninho sends Fluminense through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Bruninho obliged against Ponte Preta. 6‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Fluminense.

Market31 Jul 2028

Terms done: Fabinho is going

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

Player ratings31 Jul 2028

Both of them Branquinho's — 8.84

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.84, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad31 Jul 2028

A day Bruninho will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Vinicius Zanocelo stays at Ceará as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Fluminense will try again when the window opens; Ceará may not be selling by then.

Player ratings31 Jul 2028

No sign of nerves from Bruninho at 19 — 8.23

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bruninho did not need any: 8.23, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market31 Jul 2028

Fluminense say no — this time

The offer from Hapoel Haifa for Bruninho was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings31 Jul 2028

Kayky Almeida pops up at the right end — 7.78

7.78, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

The dugout31 Jul 2028

Branquinho 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.

In brief

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101 Edition

The Fluminense Post

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

Fee done, terms next for Tetê

Fluminense and Grêmio have settled on $34.9M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Match27 Jun 2028

Keno sends Fluminense through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Keno obliged against Central. 4‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Fluminense.

Market3 Jul 2028

Guga asks to leave Fluminense

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings3 Jul 2028

Keno scores twice — 8.08

Two goals and a mark of 8.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market3 Jul 2028

Lelê has said yes to ASA

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Fluminense have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings3 Jul 2028

Nobody could get near Rubén Lezcano

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market3 Jul 2028

Only the photograph left for Crystopher

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

Market3 Jul 2028

João Neto says no to América de Natal

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

Squad3 Jul 2028

Gabriel Batista keeps Fluminense in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

In brief

90 Edition

The Fluminense Post

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom17 Apr 2028

Júnior Freitas signs on for the long haul

Fluminense moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Júnior Freitas, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Boardroom17 Apr 2028

5 academy graduates step up at Fluminense

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Match15 Apr 2028

Nobody wins at Fluminense

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market17 Apr 2028

Alex Machado steps up from the Fluminense academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alex Machado 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.

Market17 Apr 2028

Sérgio Xavier steps up from the Fluminense academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sérgio Xavier 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.

Market17 Apr 2028

Fluminense promote Mateus Lopes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mateus Lopes 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.

Market17 Apr 2028

Branquinho steps up from the Fluminense academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Branquinho 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Santiago Moreno 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Words exchanged at Fluminense

Keno 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.

In brief