“São Paulo signed a ticking time bomb!”: Bahia journo on Iago injuries | OneFootball

São Paulo is very close to announcing the signing of 29-year-old left-back Iago. The player, who belongs to Bahia and had been negotiating a return to Internacional — the club where he came through the ranks — chose the Tricolor project after the São Paulo board presented an offer with higher wages than those offered by the team from Rio Grande do Sul.

São Paulo’s move meets an immediate need in the squad managed by Dorival Júnior. The left side is undergoing restructuring due to its current instability and the likely departure of Argentine Enzo Díaz, who has drawn interest from overseas football.

The AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR team spoke to someone who knows the player, Rafael Seixas, journalist at Rádio Metrópole FM 101.3 in Bahia, who gave a far from encouraging opinion about São Paulo’s likely new signing. Check it out:

“Iago arrived here at Bahia after a long saga and with very high expectations because of the numbers he had been putting up in German football (he played for Augsburg). But he came in as if he were the solution to Bahia’s problems at left-back.

And that was how every website, portal, and newspaper presented it, as if he were a star, but when he arrived, the reality was completely different. First because he immediately ran into Juba, who was flying here at Bahia, and also because he had a string of injuries and physical issues and couldn’t establish himself when he got opportunities under coach Rogério Ceni.

Iago piled up lengthy injuries, which disrupted his run, his match rhythm, because of those physical problems. And then there was Juba, who was also flying, and since Juba played practically the entire championship and missed very few games, Iago couldn’t get opportunities, couldn’t get a run of games, and when he did, he couldn’t earn space, he couldn’t reach the level Juba was playing at.

Then Zé Guilherme came along, and the fans asked Rogério to give the academy kid a chance, and Iago ultimately couldn’t cement his place. Since Bahia now have Juba and Zé Guilherme, and Zé Guilherme is doing well, there’s no reason for Bahia to keep Borduchi. That’s why the club let Iago Borduchi go.

And on top of that, you’ve signed a player who is a frequent visitor to the medical department, okay? He suffered a ligament rupture in the rectus femoris between October 2024 and February 2025 and was sidelined for a long time. In May 2026, he got injured again in his thigh when he was getting a chance to start, at a time when Juba was injured.

Before that, in May 2025, he fractured his nose, then had scar tissue fibrosis, a thigh injury, so he had recurring thigh injuries. Then he had a skin infection that kept him out for a long time, off the pitch. So he has made repeated trips to the medical department. I think you’ve signed a ticking time bomb, okay?

He’s an okay player, not a star, not a superstar, he’s not a Marcelo, not a Filipe Luís, not a Wesley. He’s a squad player, he can help. But he spends a lot of time in the medical department — you’ve signed a ticking time bomb

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