A run of four defeats would obviously increase the pressure on Fluminense coach Enderson Moreira but he"s not in danger of being fired, according to club vice-president Mário Bittencourt.
During a press-conference at Laranjeiras on Monday, Bittencourt insisted that there"s no need to change the manager now and ensured that the meeting with Enderson after the 3-1 derby loss to Flamengo on Sunday was routine. He was quoted in Estadão: “We understand that there is no need to change. I didn"t have any meeting at the Maracanã or any meeting today [Monday]. What we did yesterday [Sunday] after the game is what we do always. Just a post-match meeting. Yesterday"s meeting was stretched up because the president was also there. The meeting today was during training, and I was with him throughout the training."
However, Mário Bittencourt expressed his dissatisfaction with the club"s poor results which leave the club 9th in the Brasileirão table. He added: “Seeing Fluminense lose is what bothers me more. No one here likes to see Fluminense lose. In the last ten games in the Brazilian Championship, we won two. But we won two in the Copa do Brasil. We are struggling to be back on track. We attribute this to a number of factors. The Brazilian championship is very long. Some players arrived in mid-season. We went through reconstruction. We had difficulty in repeating the same team. We lost two wing-backs; Vinícius, Fred… We had a shift that started with games at home and now a difficult sequence away from home. The results are not coming."
A run of four defeats would obviously increase the pressure on Fluminense coach Enderson Moreira but he"s not in danger of being fired, according to club vice-president Mário Bittencourt.
During a press-conference at Laranjeiras on Monday, Bittencourt insisted that there"s no need to change the manager now and ensured that the meeting with Enderson after the 3-1 derby loss to Flamengo on Sunday was routine. He was quoted in Estadão: “We understand that there is no need to change. I didn"t have any meeting at the Maracanã or any meeting today [Monday]. What we did yesterday [Sunday] after the game is what we do always. Just a post-match meeting. Yesterday"s meeting was stretched up because the president was also there. The meeting today was during training, and I was with him throughout the training."
However, Mário Bittencourt expressed his dissatisfaction with the club"s poor results which leave the club 9th in the Brasileirão table. He added: “Seeing Fluminense lose is what bothers me more. No one here likes to see Fluminense lose. In the last ten games in the Brazilian Championship, we won two. But we won two in the Copa do Brasil. We are struggling to be back on track. We attribute this to a number of factors. The Brazilian championship is very long. Some players arrived in mid-season. We went through reconstruction. We had difficulty in repeating the same team. We lost two wing-backs; Vinícius, Fred… We had a shift that started with games at home and now a difficult sequence away from home. The results are not coming."
