What’s news (08/08/2008)
By: André | August 8th, 2008The board has now another target. Thay are aiming Wolfsburg’s Marcelinho Paraíba.
Paraíba is a 33 years old who already played for São Paulo, Olympique Marseille, Grêmio, Hertha BSC and Trabzonspor. He plays as a SS, linking the midfield and the attack, playing both functions.
Marcelinho can help our attack to get back socring and also may help the midfielders to mark, pass and create opportunities.
Last month, after a Wolfsburg’s victory against FC Schöningen 08, he said some Brazilian clubs offered him great contracts but he wanted to continue on Germany and finish his contract with Wolfsburg, which goes untile the end of the season, before he comes back to Brazil. Now Kléber Leite has to work and convince the player, who confess that they are negotiating, to come back and join Flamengo.
The board is taking too long o bring new players after we lost Marcinho, Renato Augusto and Souza. Renato has gone on July 8th, Marcinho, on 16th, and Souza, on 26th. All trasferred on July and we signed only two players (one of them a LWB) and Vandinho, the only front man who our board has already signed, is already injured.
Today Kléber Leite said “We didn’t give up. But we took too long thinking only about Felipe and Vágner Love. Now we have other plans”.
According to the Brazilian website Globoesporte.com one of the plans could be Sandro. He is a 24 uears old attacking midfielder who played for Paraná on 2006, while Caio jr was their coach, and left the club to joing Gençlerbirligi, from Turkey. Nowadays he plays for the also Turkish, Oftasspor. However, after consulting, Kléber Leite evidenced he won’t be a possible player because of his contract’s rescissory fine clause, which is too high.
About Vágner Love and Felipe, all I know is that club and players have an agreement about the salaries, but they still have to convince their current teams to sign Flamengo a deal, which it isn’t as easy as it seams to be. Al-Sadd, where Felipe plays, is ruled by a sheik and everybody knows they are not open-minded people. Vágner Love’s team, CSKA Moscow, is going through a difficult time: they are not scoring, as well as Flamengo, and in a need of strikers. As I already checked with j, the Russian Football Federation blogger, they may be convinced, but they have to sign other player first and they are not on a hurry to do it. So, it may take a while.
After the bomb images got worldwidely spread, Richard Morales said he will not join Flamengo. Board and player had already announced the deal and set date, time and place for the player presentation, but his family told him to stay on Uruguay and, scared, he thought it would be a better idea to stay instead of facing the pressure.
I was very angry about that, but now, thinking calmly, I can see it was better. A player that can’t handle pessure is not a player that can wear our sacred mantle. If without him we already have some problems, with him it would be worse, because he wouldn’t know how to work with the constant fans pressure.
Today the board is having a videoconference with Boca Juniors’ board to deal Leandro Gracián. According to Club de Futbol Monterrey’s blogger, he would be a great “10″ for us. This is what I expect.
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