{"id":394719,"date":"2025-09-03T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394719\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:13:18","slug":"cuiabano-returns-to-botafogo-four-days-after-signing-for-nottingham-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394719\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuiabano returns to Botafogo four days after signing for Nottingham Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cuiabano-Nuno-Espirito-Santo-and-Evangelos-Marinakis-1140x641.png\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cuiabano focused on the left with Nuno Espirito Santo smiling on the right alongside a serious Evangelos Marinakis\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Imago\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Profile-pic-scaled-e1753084758129-150x150.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Jack Heath\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Wed 3 September 2025 12:08, UK <\/p>\n<p><strong>Cuiabano is re-joining his previous club Botafogo just a matter of days after signing for Nottingham Forest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/evangelos-marinakis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evangelos Marinakis<\/a> went large in the summer transfer window, forking out \u00a3200.8million (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/premier-league-net-spend-2025-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Squawka<\/a>) to bring in new talent for manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/nuno-espirito-santo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nuno Espirito Santo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the club struck up deals with Botafogo, signing four players from the Brazilian outfit including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/exclusive-nottingham-forest-hijack-west-hams-john-victor-deal-as-talks-advance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hijack by Nottingham Forest of West Ham target John Victor<\/a>. <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On top of this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/murillo-reacts-as-jesus-and-cunha-share-first-nottingham-forest-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nottingham Forest also signed Igor Jesus and Jair Cunha from Botafogo<\/a> to add greater depth to the squad ahead of the added fixtures from the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>Cuiabano became the fourth player to join from the Carioca side, yet it looks like the left-back will be heading back home straight away.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John-Victor-Botafogo-resize-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"John Victor - Botafogo holding a yellow ball\" class=\"wp-image-699813\" \/>Credit: Imago<strong>Cuiabano to return to Botafogo after not wanting to leave for Nottingham Forest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ge.globo.com\/futebol\/times\/botafogo\/noticia\/2025\/09\/02\/vendido-ha-quatro-dias-ao-nottingham-forest-cuiabano-retorna-ao-botafogo-por-emprestimo.ghtml?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_content=Esporte&amp;utm_campaign=globoEsporte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ge.globo<\/a> (2 September), the Brazilian will return to the alvinegro on loan after voicing his eagerness to return to his former club.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 29 August, Botafogo sold Cuiabano to the Garibaldi for an undisclosed fee before negotiations ended on Tuesday 2 September for a finalised loan move back to the Rio de Janeiro side.<\/p>\n<p>MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n<p>As per the report, former Man United full-back Rafael had revealed that the player did not want to leave the club initially, hence the decision to send him back to Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nottingham Forest grow their Portuguese centre after flurry of transfer activity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Football Insider verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Forest signed the duo of Jesus and Cunha earlier this transfer window, it added to Espirito Santo\u2019s track record of creating a Lusophonic core to his teams.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Portugal, the former Tottenham manager has consistently sourced players that speak the same language as him.<\/p>\n<p>Most memorably, his Wolves squad was dominated by Portugal nationals such as Ruben Neves and Joao Moutinho.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Nottingham Forest\u2019s Portuguese speakers<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Country<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>John Victor<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Murillo<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Morato<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jair Cunha<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Douglas Luiz<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jota Silva<\/td>\n<td>Portugal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Igor Jesus<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cuiabano (Botafogo on loan)<\/td>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>The Lusophone heart of Nottingham Forest<\/p>\n<p>This concept has now been focused more heavily on Brazilians with seven of them now in the Forest fold.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Marinakis has clearly constructed a friendly agreement with Botafogo owner John Textor to keep funnelling Brazilian prodigies to the City Ground.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the Greek will most likely also be aware of Espirito Santo\u2019s preference to build a Lusophonic nucleus to his side which will certainly satisfy the Portuguese manager.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago\/Getty Images Wed 3 September 2025 12:08, UK Cuiabano is re-joining his previous club Botafogo just a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[85497,136509,94,178,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-394719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-botafogo","9":"tag-cuiabano","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nottingham-forest","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115140782330372358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}