Risadinha

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Fluminense U18
5 Sep 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Risadinha

518 Edition

The Fluminense Post

30 Jun 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Terms done: Gui Meira is going

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

Squad

Felipe Mastro Pietro breaks a bone — 58 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Israel Boatwright 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.

The dugout

Israel Boatwright says Fluminense went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Victor Hugo attracts admirers

The name of Victor Hugo has come up in conversations Fluminense were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings

Bernardo Valim beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Fluminense turn down São Luiz for Risadinha

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

Squad

Tempers go at Fluminense

Victor Hugo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

Fluminense rebuffed over Rokenedy

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Náutico have kept their man, and Fluminense go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

Back issues
516 Edition

The Fluminense Post

16 Jun 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Fluminense turn down Juventude for Victor Hugo

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

Market

Terms done: Risadinha is going

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

Squad

72 days out for Felipe Mastro Pietro after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Fluminense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Heittor

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Fluminense have done the hard part with Athletico Paranaense, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market

Cauan Farias hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fluminense can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Lucas Di Maio

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

Squad

A falling-out at Fluminense

Victor Hugo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

4 matches without a win for Fluminense

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fluminense are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

Fluminense to lose Elías Díaz for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Elías Díaz 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.

In brief

514 Edition

The Fluminense Post

2 Jun 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

The interim tag comes off Interim Coach

Fluminense interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Interim Coach keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

Market

Only the photograph left for Gustavo Marques

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

Market

Brayan 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.

Squad

Lucas Perri 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 Fluminense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Fluminense

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

Squad

Filip Szabaciuk wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Fluminense know it.

Market

Risadinha attracts admirers

The name of Risadinha has come up in conversations Fluminense were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

A bad afternoon for Fluminense against Fortaleza

0‑1 to Fortaleza, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Still no ink between Fluminense and Gabriel Delfim

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fluminense, another week without a signature from Gabriel Delfim.

In brief