Botafogo close to announcing new manager | OneFootball

Botafogo is close to announcing Tite as its new head coach, according to ge.

With GDA coming in as the club’s new investor, the coach was chosen to lead the project. The contract is expected to run through December 2028.

Negotiations moved quickly throughout this week. After an in-person meeting on Monday and intense talks on Tuesday, the club woke up this Wednesday very confident that a deal would be reached. Only a few bureaucratic details remain before the signing.

The black-and-white board is racing against time to have the coach on the touchline as early as Saturday. The match will be against Mirassol in the Brazilian Championship.

That Saturday match was set as the deadline for the manager’s arrival. After that, there will be a 17-day break in the calendar due to the FIFA international window, a period seen as crucial for the first training sessions.

The former Brazil national team coach’s name has always been well received internally and is almost unanimous. He is very highly rated by the scouting department and had already been targeted by John Textor’s management on previous occasions.

The club had planned to keep Rodrigo Bellão as interim coach until the end of the year. However, recent results forced the board to change course and bring forward the search for a big-name coach for the final stretch of the season.

Bellão will lead the team, probably for the last time as interim coach, on Wednesday night against Grêmio.

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