“It won’t come from the coach.”

In the last match at the Arena Stadium in 2025, Gremio disappointed and lost 2-1 to Fluminense, Tuesday (2), in the 37th round of the Brazilian championship. Thus, the Tricolor team became further away from the dream of securing a place in the Brazilian G8 Championship.

After all, Tricolor stopped at 46 points and can say goodbye to its dream of qualifying for the next Copa Libertadores. In short, if São Paulo beats Internacional, Wednesday (3), in Morumbis, Gremio will have no chance of finishing the Brazilian championship in eighth place. The Sao Paulo team currently has two additional points.

Thus, the team’s moment also raises questions about the future of coach Mano Menezes. After all, the coach has a contract with Gremio until the end of 2025. However, after the defeat against Fluminense, Manu left his future in the hands of the future management of the club, led by Odorico Roman.

“This will not come from the coach, it will come from the club management,” Manu said. “If they understand that they have to talk to me before the last match, they can and they know they can. If they don’t want to, they won’t talk and life will go on.”

Despite the public rhetoric, Manu has the respect of Luiz Felipe Scolari, Gremio’s coach, and Paolo Bellebi, the favorite to take over the footballing reins at Immortal. Grêmio’s future management had already begun to evaluate Mano’s work.

His brothers talk about Gremio’s defeat

When speaking about Gremio’s defeat to Fluminense, Mano Menezes pointed out his team’s lack of consistency throughout the match and how that represented the club’s season. However, the coach also stated that Tricolor deserves a better result in the arena.

Mano Menezes said: “We came out a little disappointed from the game. In the first half, we were a little worried, and we pressed the game a lot. This cost us dearly. We conceded two goals with a certain ease, which cannot happen. This is the picture of our season. We did good things at times, but we fluctuated.”

“We have to be more mature in the big matches. It’s a team building process. Today, we again didn’t know how to do what the big matches require. We improved in the second half and deserved better luck with the result. Today we left something of what we wanted, so the result was not positive,” added the coach.

In the last round, Grêmio de Mano Menezes visits the team that has already been relegated to the second division, in Ilha do Retiro. The match will be held on Sunday (7), at 26 (Brasilia time).

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