All we need is Love

By: André | July 27th, 2008

And one more has gone. After losing Renato Augusto and Marcinho, is time to say goodbye to Souza. The striker is joining Panathinaikos – which already signed ex Fluminense’s right winger, Gabriel, and Arsenal’s midfielder, Gilberto Silva -, after the Greeks paid € 3 millions to count with the striker. Losing these three players we don’t have our attack anymore.

Love, love, love

It’s true that Renato Augusto almost didn’t play this year, but he was recovered from his injury and playing very well. After recovering he turned into a key player. Marcinho is not the kind of player I like. He is always looking for trouble, but he was scoring lots of goals and that is what I want in a striker. Souza is just like Marcinho: trouble. But Flamengo playes on high speed and counterattacks, so he was a key player too, holding the ball and waiting the other players to get in position to score our create chances.

Now we only have Éder, Maxi and Obina. Nobody is sure about Éder. He had very few opportunities, but he is a lion on the trainings, scoring everytime, and on the last games he played very well. Maxi is an argentine and that says a lot of things about him. He is always running, on every corner of the field and he is Messi’s cousin (we soccer to be explained by genetics). Obina is the fans’ favorite player. I do not like him at all, but all the other fans think he is like a luck amulet.

So, as you can see, we cannot count with them only. We need backup. We do need reinforcements.

It’s been said that Vandinho, the second Brazilian 2008 season top scorer, will be joining us. The only fact that can ruin the negotiation is his actual team, Avaí. They say the player is not for sale, but his agent already said that the player’s will is going to prevail and everybody wants to wear the scarlet-black shirt.

Today, the sports newspapers notified that Vágner Love can join us. It this rumor turns into true it would be great news. The CSKA Moscow foward is one of the greatest strikers I can imagine joining Flamengo. He proved everyone that he can be a top scorer here in Brazil while he was playing for Palmeiras. Besides that, he is just like me: a Flamengo fan.

These two players would be part of a great attack. With them the team will continue playing as it is right now (speed and counterattacks). As I read today, substituting Souza for Love is six of one, A DOZEN of the other.

On the attack zone, Love is all we need. Now we got to work on our new attacking midfielder.