For journalist, Tite should be fired before the game against Peñarol

Flamengo disappointed its fans last Thursday night. That's because they lost to Peñarol, in a packed Maracanã, 1-0, and now they need to reverse the result there in Uruguay, next week, to pass the semi-finals of the Libertadores. In this sense, journalist Renato Maurício Prado, detonated who, for him, is largely to blame for the red-black phase.

For RMP , Tite is largely responsible for a millionaire Flamengo not being able to perform a good football and that's why he declared in his column that the coach should be fired before the return game. 

The full RMP column follows:

"It won't happen, as it didn't happen with Jorge Sampaoli, after the defeat in the first game of the Copa do Brasil final, also at Maracanã, against São Paulo by Dorival Júnior. And, most likely, as it was that time, Flamengo will lose their place - last year, they lost the title.

Rodolfo Landim, he's not in the business. Just the other day, he belittled the achievements of Jorge Jesus, who won the Brasileiro and the Libertadores in the same season (something unheard of in the points era). races). "Times were different, opponents weren't as strong", decreed the big lady with the nostrils of a corpse, who still knows absolutely nothing about the world of football.

Because of this ignorance and the unshakable alliance with Marcos Braz, he is heading towards the second consecutive season without significant titles and the defeat in Flamengo's elections, in end of the year. When the ball doesn't go in, forget it: the situation doesn't win. And there is no stadium capable of reversing this downward trend, already detected by research.

Even for the traditional Fla-Nelinha group (the one who loves rubbing shoulders with coaches and managers) it's difficult to defend Professor Adenor's work. The shallow argument that he was still alive after three competitions is becoming a trap. By the way the carriage is going, he will soon be dead in all three. So, what will they say?

The fact is that, with almost a year of work leading the most expensive cast on the continent, Tite was unable to put together a solid team, one that gives confidence and pleasure to his fans. Watching Flamengo's games, for the red and black, became an exercise in masochism.

In the defeat to Peñarol, it was no different. Yes, it's true that some of their most talented players had subpar individual performances (notably De La Cruz, who gave the impression that he wasn't ready to return to the field yet).

But what was Tite's tactical plan, if there was one? Diego Aguirre washed it down with fried porridge. Believing that the return game, at the Campeón del Siglo, will be different (as Tite predicted, in the post-game interview) is almost like believing in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Headless Mule.

Flamengo hasn't won a Libertadores match away from home since the thrashing of Velez in 2022. Under the command of Dorival Júnior. That he was sent away, despite having won the main competition on the continent and, as a bonus, the Copa do Brasil.

After almost six years in charge of Brazil's most popular club Rodolfo Landim continues to ask "who is the ball"?"