From our football correspondent
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Market1 Jan 2030
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Defensor Sporting people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Jan 2030
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market1 Jan 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Plaza Colonia can pretend not to have heard.
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Steady
Market1 Dec 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Dec 2029
Only the photograph left for Germán Barbas
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Germán Barbas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Penarol the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Dec 2029
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Cucho Hernández wants continental football; whether Penarol can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Nov 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Montevideo City Torque, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Nov 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Plaza Colonia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Nov 2029
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
Pavel Núñez tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 1 appearances for Juventud.
Market1 Oct 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Progreso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Oct 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Albion is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
Nobody made more than Esteban Obregón this month
2 assists, 8.93, and a Plaza Colonia player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Oct 2029
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market1 Oct 2029
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
1 goals in 1 appearances for Plaza Colonia leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
Ivo Costantino up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Plaza Colonia — 2 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
1 appearances, 1 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
1 goals in 1 appearances for Danubio leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
Marked 7.61 across the month. Somewhere in this division there are strikers whose goal tally belongs partly to him, and none of them will say so.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
Pablo Rivera keeps making them — 1 this month
8.26 for a Danubio player whose contribution is measured entirely in other people's celebrations. The providers' chart is the one nobody frames and everybody in a dressing room reads.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
The month closes with Karim Konaté out in front — 5 goals in 4 games, and Penarol have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
Everybody in the division was measured and a Penarol man came out on top: 8.40 across the month and 8 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
Young player of the month: Nicolás Azambuja — 7.35
7.35 across the month and 2 goal contributions from a Plaza Colonia player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Sep 2029
Penarol say no — this time
The offer from Malmo FF for Karim Konaté was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Sep 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cerro, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Sep 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicolás Azambuja will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Plaza Colonia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Sep 2029
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Sebastián Guerrero had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
The division’s top provider is Cucho Hernández — 8.40
4 assists across the month from a Penarol player marked 8.40. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
Karim Konaté is the division's best-marked player — 8.60
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.60 across 4 matches for Penarol.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
A productive month at Penarol — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
4 goals in 4 appearances for Defensor Sporting leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
The month closes with Karim Konaté out in front — 9 goals in 4 games, and Penarol have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Gui Negão is the division's player of the month — 8.98
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Wanderers man on 8.98 with 9 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Young player of the month: Germán Barbas — 6.90
6.90 across the month and 1 goal contributions from a Penarol player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Aug 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Aug 2029
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Nacional waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Penarol is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market1 Aug 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Aug 2029
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Cerro Largo moved on, Esteban Obregón reports back to Plaza Colonia, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
The division’s top provider is Zito Luvumbo — 7.85
5 assists across the month from a Penarol player marked 7.85. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Highest marks in the league belong to a Wanderers man
Gui Negão averaged 8.98 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
A productive month at Penarol — 6 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
A productive month at Cerro Largo — 7 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
4 in 4 for Defensor Sporting. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
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Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
The month closes with Camilo Durán out in front — 5 goals in 5 games, and Defensor Sporting have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
Camilo Durán is the division's player of the month — 8.16
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Defensor Sporting man on 8.16 with 6 goal contributions.
Market1 Jul 2029
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Defensor Sporting have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
Germán Barbas is the month's best young player — 6.90
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.90 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Penarol player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Jul 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Jul 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Jul 2029
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Germán Barbas had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
Nobody made more than Ramiro Peralta this month
3 assists, 7.42, and a Juventud player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
Marcel Ruiz is the division's best-marked player — 8.24
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.24 across 2 matches for Monterrey.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
4 goals in 5 appearances for Penarol, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
5 in 5 for Cerro Largo. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
5 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
Luciano Boggio is the division’s leading scorer
4 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Nacional have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
Gui Negão is the division's player of the month — 8.02
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Wanderers man on 8.02 with 6 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Penarol
Germán Barbas was marked 6.95 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Jun 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Boston River can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
Gui Negão leads the division for assists — 8.02
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Wanderers player marked 8.02, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Jun 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Montevideo City Torque they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
Best marks in the division for Gui Negão — 8.02
8.02 on average across 4 matches for Wanderers. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Market1 Jun 2029
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Penarol heard it as anything else.
Market1 Jun 2029
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
3 goals in 4 appearances for Penarol, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
3 in 4 for Defensor Sporting. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
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Scoring charts1 May 2029
Nobody scored more than Gui Negão
The month closes with Gui Negão out in front — 8 goals in 4 games, and Wanderers have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
Player of the month: Gui Negão — 8.50
Everybody in the division was measured and a Wanderers man came out on top: 8.50 across the month and 8 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
Germán Barbas is the month's best young player — 7.56
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.56 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Penarol player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 May 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 May 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Albion they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 May 2029
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Sebastián Guerrero had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
Luciano Cosentino leads the division for assists — 7.57
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Wanderers player marked 7.57, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
Best marks in the division for Gui Negão — 8.50
8.50 on average across 4 matches for Wanderers. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Market1 May 2029
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
3 goals in 4 appearances for Penarol, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
Marcel Ruiz up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Penarol — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
3 in 4 for Cerro. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
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Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
Nicolás Ferreira is the division’s leading scorer
7 goals in 5 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Wanderers have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
Nicolás Ferreira is the division's player of the month — 8.68
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Wanderers man on 8.68 with 11 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Plaza Colonia
Nicolás Azambuja was marked 6.93 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Apr 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Plaza Colonia can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Apr 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Albion is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Apr 2029
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. River Plate have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Apr 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
Nobody made more than Nicolás Ferreira this month
4 assists, 8.68, and a Wanderers player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
5 goals in 5 appearances for Penarol, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
4 goals in 5 appearances for Plaza Colonia leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
A productive month at Racing — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
Gui Negão is right behind him
6 goals in 5 appearances for Wanderers, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 3 appearances for Defensor Sporting.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
Camilo Durán is the division's player of the month — 8.32
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Defensor Sporting man on 8.32 with 5 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Penarol
Germán Barbas was marked 6.94 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Mar 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Mar 2029
Wanderers say no — this time
The offer from Slovacko for Joaquín Zeballos was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Mar 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicolás Azambuja will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Plaza Colonia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Mar 2029
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Kryvbas waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Defensor Sporting is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
Augusto Berrondo leads the division for assists — 7.86
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Defensor Sporting player marked 7.86, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
Best marks in the division for Karim Konaté — 8.72
8.72 on average across 3 matches for Penarol. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
3 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
3 goals in 3 appearances for Cerro, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
3 goals in 3 appearances for Nacional, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Feb 2029
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and RC Lens waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Penarol is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market1 Feb 2029
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Sporting CP had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market1 Feb 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Albion, and it is not being withdrawn.