Transfers: Renato Augusto

Renato Augusto did not confirm the rumours of his 30-million-euros move to Benfica. The extremely bright superstar is going to contunue playing for Flamengo with which he has a contract till 2012.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo & Flamengo

Famous Brazilian coach Vandelei Luxemburgo, whose contract with Santos is almost over, and who would like to change a club, has received a superoffer from Flamengo. He has not only been offered a good salary, but also promised interest from players' sale.

Transfers: Kleberson

Finally pentacampeon Kleberson managed to return home. After his intent to sign with Santos failed, the Paranaense joined Flamengo. In Europe Kleberson's last club was Turkish Besiktas.

Transfers: Hugo Colace

Argentinean Hugo Colace, who, as it was told earlier, was sounded by Flamengo, signed a contract with Brazilian giant till June. Estudiantes' ex-midfielder will be presented to the torcida this week.

Transfers: Hugo Colace

Looks like Flamengo aprreciated the quality of Argentinean players, and now their coach Joel Santana wnats to sign midfielder Hugo Colace from Estudiantes. In Argentinean sub-20 Colace played along with Tevez and Mascherano.

Transfers: Juan

Flamengo's left wing Juan has been wanted in Spanish Espanyol and Almeria. In light of this news in Flamengo they decided to sign a new contract with him.

Flamengo

After signing Messi's cousin, Maxi Biancucci, Flamengo surprised even more, having signed the brother of Biancucci - Bruno. The new flamenguista is only 10 years old, and is expected to reimburse the invested money in eight to ten years. In Argentina Bruno was raised in famous Renato Cesario school, connected to Newell's Old Boys.

Transfers: Renato Augusto

Young Flamengo's superstar Renato Augusto goes on sparkling interest in Europe. This time, he is sounded actively by Italian Palermo. Although, the price of 30 million euros is considered by Italians as too high.

Transfers: Paulinho

Flamengo's midfielder Paulinho, who had been acquired at the beginning of the season by request of ex-coach Ney Franco, has moved to Maccabi Haifa. In Brasileirao he also played for Gama.

Transfers: Marcos Assunção

After the intent to bring home Jonatas failed, Flamengo found a substitute: Marcos Assunção, who also played for Brazilian grandee in 1998. The midfielder, who currently plays for Betis, is pretended by Turkish Besiktas too. At home Marcos played also for Rio Branco and Santos.

Injuries: Leo Medeiros

Leo Medeiros, Flamengo's midfielder, has entered a dark pahse of his career, First, new Flamengo's coach Joel Santana put him on a bench. Then, an attacking midfielder injured his right leg and was out for two weeks. This season Medeiros managed to score four goals.

Transfers: Jônatas

The return of Jonatas home to Flamengo suddenly stalled. The president of Espanyol decided that Jonatas is to valuable for his club and decided not to let him go, despite the personal request of the Brazilian himself. Flamengo is ready to send for Jonatas to Espanyol their forward Souza.

Transfers: Fabio Luciano

After having changed the coach just a couple of days ago, Flamengo receives already the second new strong player. This time it is Fabio Luciano (32) with experience of playing for the national team. His last team was German Cologn, while before he played for Ponte Preta, Corinthians and Fenerbahce.

Transfers: Jonatas

After a quick return of Ibson from Europe to Flamengo, another his ex-mate, Jonatas, decided to return to the same club, after having spent quite little time at Spanish Espanyol. That's the first club's reinforcement after the signing of a new coach. The transfer was facilitated by the wish of Jonatas himself to return home.

New Coach in Flamengo

The chiefs of the club from Gavea could not stand for long the miserable location of Flamengo at the bottom of the table and decided to change a coach. Instead of Ney Franco the team will be governed again, after year and a half, by Joel Santana, whose last place of job was Japan.

Brasileirão: Corinthians-Flamengo

Soon upon having signed with Flamengo, wonder-playmaker Roger took part in a clash against his former club. He did it well: right after entering the game whem Fla was losing 0:2 (Clodoaldo and Dinelson), he initiated an attack that ended up with a goal of Souza. Soon Leo Medeiros scored another one and brought a valuable draw to Cariocas. Both grandees are in the lower part of the table for now.

The squads:

Corinthians
Felipe; Edson, Fábio Ferreira, Zelão and Wellington; Bruno Octávio, Moradei, Dinélson (Arce) and Willian; Wilson (Ricardinho) and Clodoaldo.
Coach: Paulo César Carpegiani

Flamengo
Bruno; Leonardo Moura, Moisés, Ronaldo Angelim and Juan; Cristian (Paulo Sérgio), Jaílton (Roger), Léo Medeiros and Renato Augusto; Souza and Obina.
Coach: Ney Franco

Transfers: Flamengo

Flamengo has signed three interesting names. First, Ibson did not manage to last for long in Portugal and returned home. Second, wonderful Roger did not manage to get well with new "Timao"'s coach Carpeggiani, and had to make a move to Fla. And finally, the most interesting acquisition: Argentinean Maximiliano Ariel Biancucci, a Rosarino raised by San Lorenzo, but drafted solely by Paraguayan teams, is known, first of all, for being Lionel Messi's cousin.