Almada to Flamengo? Club page posts Argentina flag, fans go wild online | OneFootball

Flamengo fans got excited over the club’s post online

A “riddle” posted by Flamengo stirred up fans on social media. On the club’s Spanish-language page, the admin posted that he was playing a match in a virtual game. However, the player in question was Argentine, the same nationality as Thiago Almada, one of Mengão’s transfer targets.

“The CM can’t stop playing! Let’s see who can beat me…,” Flamengo wrote. “CM,” in Spanish, means “Community Manager.” In other words, the well-known “admin.” So, in the comments, Flamengo fans had some fun.

“The admin isn’t innocent,” one fan wrote. “There’s a time for jokes, admin,” another joked. “An Argentina flag at a time like this, my man?,” one Flamengo fan joked. “I know something, but I can’t prove it,” said another, attaching a photo of Thiago Almada to the post.

IS ALMADA GOING TO FLAMENGO?

According to Flamengo football director José Boto, in an interview with Coluna do Fla journalist Rodrigo Lima, Almada is not yet Mengão’s player. That’s because the Portuguese executive was in Argentina to talk with the player’s agent about the timeline for completing the deal.

Flamengo is in a hurry because they face Cruzeiro on August 12 in the Copa Libertadores round of 16. So the Argentine needs to be signed this week to be eligible for both matches against the Minas Gerais side, with the first leg at Mineirão and the return leg at Maracanã.

— I didn’t go to Argentina to convince Almada, because it would be stupid on his part if I had to go there to convince him. He played in Brazil for six months and knows how big Flamengo is. I dealt with several matters there, and one of them was Almada — said Boto upon arriving in Rio de Janeiro in the early hours of Tuesday (04).

— We’re not going to get into bidding wars with other interested clubs, nor with those that aren’t interested but pretend they are, because that’s part of the game. Do you know how many transfers worth 20 million euros or more have been made in the history of Brazilian football? Seven. Two by Flamengo, two by Palmeiras, two by Botafogo, and one by Cruzeiro. All in the last two years. Only four Brazilian clubs have ever been involved in transfers at that level — he added.

WHERE IS ALMADA?

Wanted by River Plate (ARG) and Flamengo, Almada is in Ibiza, Spain, enjoying his vacation after playing in the Club World Cup final on July 19. The player does not want to give up his rest before deciding his future. On the other hand, Flamengo wants an answer soon and has set this week as the final deadline.

WHAT DOES THE AUTHOR THINK?

— As one of the fans said, the ‘admin wasn’t innocent’ with this post. If the idea was to drive engagement around the possibility of signing Almada, he pulled it off. The message, even on the Spanish-language page, has been getting a lot of attention throughout the day — said Pedro Paulo Catonho, journalist for Coluna do Fla.

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