The Bahia Courier
Squad18 Jan 2038
Rafael Romero damages knee ligaments — 122 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 122 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market18 Jan 2038
Valentín Escalante 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.
Market18 Jan 2038
As if he never left: Esteban Fernández returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Esteban Fernández is a Bahia player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad18 Jan 2038
Erick Pulga 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.
Market18 Jan 2038
David Martins wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad18 Jan 2038
A move Jacob Pearson 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. Jacob Pearson is living that version at Bahia, and it tends to show in the first month.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Erick Pulga in it
- Squad Esteban Fernández signs on for more
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Esteban Fernández