Coluna do Fla
·13 September 2025
Internacional appeal but lose out to Flamengo in Thiago Maia case

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·13 September 2025
Internacional continues to try in every way not to settle the debt it owes to Flamengo for the purchase of Thiago Maia. This time, the team from Rio Grande do Sul filed an appeal, but their request was denied by the National Chamber for Dispute Resolution (CNRD).
At the moment, Internacional is running out of major alternatives to ‘get rid of’ the debt with Flamengo. The team from Rio Grande do Sul is already aware that enforcement will proceed. Thus, the club still has the possibility of appealing to the Arbitration Chamber. However, the process is expensive and usually does not have much effect on the decisions.
On the other hand, Flamengo believes that Internacional is trying to buy time with these internal maneuvers. The Rubro-Negro believes that the team from Rio Grande do Sul may try a ‘last resort’ by requesting to pay the debts in installments. The information comes from journalist Venê Casagrande.
SEE THE SENTENCE FOR INTERNACIONAL IN THE THIAGO MAIA CASE
- to order INTERNACIONAL to pay EUR 1,472,588.33 to FLAMENGO for breach of contract; – to order INTERNACIONAL to pay R$ 51,211.99 to FLAMENGO as procedural costs; – to declare that INTERNACIONAL must pay FLAMENGO the remaining installments provided for in the contract, under penalty of sanctions, as per the RCNRD; – and to order INTERNACIONAL to pay R$ 467,000 to FLAMENGO’s attorneys as legal fees
Flamengo negotiated Thiago Maia with Internacional in 2024. At the time, it was stipulated that the team from Rio Grande do Sul would pay 4 million euros (about R$ 25 million at the current exchange rate) in ten installments. However, the club from Rio Grande do Sul has not paid any of them so far.
Amidst all this imbroglio involving Thiago Maia, Flamengo takes the field this Sunday (14th) to face Juventude, for the 23rd round of the Brasileirão. The match kicks off at 4pm (Brasília time), at Estádio Alfredo Jaconi, in Caxias do Sul. As usual, Coluna do Fla TV will bring all the details of the match on YouTube.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.