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Since Pedro's injury, Flamengo and CBF have been on a "collision course". This is because the number 9 was seriously injured while training with the Brazilian team and will now be out for the rest of the season. According to Rodolfo Landim, there was a loading error in the team's training on the player, who was returning from injury at the club. This Friday (20), Rodrigo Caetano, coordinator of the entity, responded to the red-black president.

"I'm not here to analyze any statement regarding this. I can say that there are great professionals here at CBF who have been there for for a long time, they are permanent members of the house and have carried out this work over all these years. Not only does this load control exist, we took all the care in the world", said Caetano, to GE, about the situation involving Pedro. .

"Now, analysis whether it was or wasn't, I'm not going to get into that debate. We always generate any and all types of reports, not only for Flamengo, Atlético-MG… For all clubs, for everything athletes they have been doing since the first day they arrive here. Obviously, in our view, all these protocols were respected", added the CBF director.

Last Friday On Friday (13), Pedro underwent surgery and the procedure was successful. Thus, the red-black number 9 is racing against time aiming for the 2025 season. The estimated recovery period for this type of injury is around eight months. The red-black department believes that the striker is ready for the 2025 World Cup.

Thus, without Pedro, Flamengo has been trying to readapt with Carlinhos and Gabigol in the attack. However, the attackers are lacking the rhythm of the game and are unable to stand out. Thus, Tite will only have the two athletes for the remainder of the season.

Flamengo's 1-0 defeat to Peñarol (URU), in the first game of the Libertadores quarter-finals, was a hard blow for the red and black fans. Dissatisfied with the team's recent performance, many lost patience and started a campaign calling for Tite to be fired. Furthermore, with the coach's possible departure, part of the fans are already suggesting a name to replace him. And it's not Jorge Jesus.

Recently fired by Al-Nassr, in Saudi Arabia, Luís Castro is seen by some fans as the ideal successor for the position of coach. On social media, the red and black highlights the fact that the Portuguese coach is available on the market.

Under pressure Due to poor results at the start of the Saudi season, Luís Castro was released by Al-Nassr, the team he had led for 14 months. The coach, who also had a spell at Botafogo, left Cristiano Ronaldo's team after a series of negative results.

The coach's situation has worsened in recent weeks, especially after the 4-1 defeat for rival Al-Hilal, owned by Jorge Jesus, in the final of the Saudi Arabian Super Cup. After this setback, Al-Nassr only managed one victory and three draws, which culminated in his dismissal.

Flamengo's board does not intend to fire Tite before the return clash against Peñarol in the quarter-finals of the Libertadores. However, the result in Uruguay could influence the coach's future.

This Friday (20), a meeting is scheduled between the red-black board and Tite, with the aim of analyzing the defeat in the Maracanã and discuss strategies to reverse the score in the second leg. Flamengo's management hopes to find solutions to guarantee classification away from home.

After the draw at Nilton Santos, John Textor, owner of SAF do Botafogo, spoke about the problems with Julio Casares, president of São Paulo. He defended that the two have a good relationship and also cited recent statements by Rodolfo Landim, Flamengo's president, who has criticized Alvinegro's high investments.

"I really appreciate that Julio [Casares] is here tonight. He was one of the first to welcome me to Brazil in a very good way. I know you are all reporting a lot of conversations about everything that happened last year, or maybe not happened, about fair play issues. It's important for people to understand that presidents can still be friends, they can be very civil with each other, they can advocate for their public policy views. As a friend, I would say it was great to see you here. We gave each other a big hug because we hadn't seen each other in a long time. In the Libra days, he was one of the people who welcomed me best."

"We are building an organization, a team. we are spending considerably less than what the fair play law says about 75% of our income on sales and player salaries. I think the Landimthe other day said that we needed to have rules because places like Brazil don't have these rules, if an investor comes and takes advantage of the fact that we don't have the rules. But we are in full agreement with all definitions of financial fair play around the world. I was the first to talk about it. I said if we don't do something about the salary cap and invite foreign investment, it will come from sovereign wealth nations with money and oil, then we really have a problem. I'm a lawyer for financial fair play."

Casares has already had fights with the owner of SAF do Glorioso amid accusations of match-fixing for the 2023 Brazilian Championship. The feud, however, remained in the background given the great repercussion of Textor's clashes with Leila Pereira, president of Palmeiras, the board of Tricolor São Paulo took action against the owner of SAF do Botafogo in several legal spheres.

In relation to. Landim, the president of Flamengo, has criticized Botafogo's high investment in several interviews. He argues that Brazil needs financial fair play to stop the money from SAFs.