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Market1 Jan 2030
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Boston River waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Fenix is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market1 Jan 2030
“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 The request is on a desk at Colon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jan 2030
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Deportivo La Guaira had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
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Market1 Dec 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 Artigas can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Dec 2029
Only the photograph left for Bruno Centeno
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bruno Centeno will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Deportivo Maldonado the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Dec 2029
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
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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 The request is on a desk at La Luz, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Nov 2029
Only the photograph left for Diego Vicente
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Diego Vicente will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around La Luz the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Nov 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.
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Market1 Oct 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 Atenas can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Oct 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around La Luz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Oct 2029
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Maicol Rodríguez has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Rampla Juniors.
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Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
The month closes with Álex Perdomo out in front — 2 goals in 1 games, and Deportivo Maldonado have the division's most feared finisher.
Market1 Sep 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 Sep 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fenix is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
The division’s top provider is Nicolás Mallet — 8.15
2 assists across the month from a Rentistas player marked 8.15. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Market1 Sep 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 Sep 2029
The name of Luciano González has come up in conversations Atenas were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
2 goals in 1 appearances for Rentistas leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
2 in 1 for Central Espanol. 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 Sep 2029
Elías de León up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Deportivo Maldonado — 1 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
1 goals in 1 appearances for Rentistas, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
1 assists and counting for Elías de León
Marked 8.75 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 Sep 2029
Álex Perdomo: 1 assists this month — 9.48
Next on a chart nobody frames. 9.48 for a Deportivo Maldonado player whose month is measured in other people's goals.
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Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
The month closes with Ignacio Yepez out in front — 6 goals in 4 games, and Cerrito have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Player of the month: Ignacio Yepez — 8.78
Everybody in the division was measured and a Cerrito man came out on top: 8.78 across the month and 7 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Market1 Aug 2029
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Fenix people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
7.08 across the month and 1 goal contributions from a Deportivo Maldonado U20 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
“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 Rentistas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Aug 2029
Nacional come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rentistas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Aug 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Atenas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Luciano Batista leads the division for assists — 7.81
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Cerrito player marked 7.81, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Best marks in the division for Ignacio Yepez — 8.78
8.78 on average across 4 matches for Cerrito. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
2 goals in 3 appearances for Central Espanol, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
A productive month at Cerrito — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Elías de León up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Deportivo Maldonado — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 6 goals in 5 appearances for Central Espanol.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
Nahuel Soria is the division's player of the month — 8.11
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 Miramar Misiones man on 8.11 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. La Luz have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Oriental
Alexis Saavedra was marked 6.72 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 Jul 2029
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Miramar Misiones had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market1 Jul 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 La Luz, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jul 2029
Borneo come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Atenas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
Nobody made more than Álex Perdomo this month
4 assists, 7.24, and a Deportivo Maldonado 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
Best marks in the division for Felipe Rivarola — 8.12
8.12 on average across 5 matches for Central Espanol. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2029
3 in 5 for Artigas. 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
3 in 5 for La Luz. 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 in 5 for Miramar Misiones. 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 Jun 2029
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 4 appearances for Miramar Misiones.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
Nahuel Soria is the division's player of the month — 8.33
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 Miramar Misiones man on 8.33 with 5 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
Young player of the month: Alexis Saavedra — 6.86
6.86 across the month and 1 goal contributions from a Oriental 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 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 Miramar Misiones can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jun 2029
Only the photograph left for Owen Falconis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Owen Falconis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerrito the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
The division’s top provider is Ignacio Yepez — 7.69
3 assists across the month from a Cerrito player marked 7.69. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
Nicolás Siri is the division's best-marked player — 8.35
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. 8.35 across 3 matches for Rentistas.
Market1 Jun 2029
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether La Luz can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
4 goals in 4 appearances for Cerrito, 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
4 goals in 3 appearances for Central Espanol leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2029
3 in 3 for Rentistas. 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 in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 4 appearances for Colon.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
Ignacio Yepez is the division's player of the month — 7.97
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 Cerrito man on 7.97 with 4 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
Young player of the month: Vicenzo Macchia — 7.68
7.68 across the month and 5 goal contributions from a Oriental 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 May 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 Atenas can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 May 2029
Only the photograph left for Luis Barbat
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luis Barbat will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerrito the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Uruguay Montevideo player marked 7.56, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
Best marks in the division for Nahuel Soria — 8.11
8.11 on average across 4 matches for Miramar Misiones. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
3 goals in 4 appearances for Rampla Juniors, 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
4 in 4 for Miramar Misiones. 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 May 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.
Scoring charts1 May 2029
3 goals in 4 appearances for Oriental, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Market1 May 2029
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Bruno Abbate has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Miramar Misiones.
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Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 6 goals in 5 appearances for Rentistas.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
Everybody in the division was measured and a Rentistas man came out on top: 8.02 across the month and 7 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
Vicenzo Macchia is the month's best young player — 7.67
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.67 over the month and 4 goal contributions, from a Oriental player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Apr 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 Miramar Misiones, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Apr 2029
Only the photograph left for Elías Machuca
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Elías Machuca will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around La Luz the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
Nobody made more than Elías de León this month
4 assists, 7.60, and a Deportivo Maldonado 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
Best marks in the division for Nahuel Soria — 8.10
8.10 on average across 5 matches for Miramar Misiones. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Market1 Apr 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 Apr 2029
Owen Falconis up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Cerrito — 4 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Apr 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.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2029
5 goals in 5 appearances for Miramar Misiones, 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
5 appearances, 6 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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Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
The month closes with Walter Domínguez out in front — 3 goals in 3 games, and Artigas have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
Alexander Machado is the division's player of the month — 7.85
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 Rentistas man on 7.85 with 2 goal contributions.
Market1 Mar 2029
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Fenix people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
Young player of the month: Alexis Saavedra — 6.88
6.88 across the month and 1 goal contributions from a Oriental 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 Mar 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 Cerrito can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Mar 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Atenas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2029
Nicolás Leites leads the division for assists — 7.57
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 2 of them made by a Artigas player marked 7.57, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Mar 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 Mar 2029
Highest marks in the league belong to a Rentistas man
Alexander Machado averaged 7.85 over 3 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 Mar 2029
2 goals in 3 appearances for Cerrito, 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
2 in 3 for Central Espanol. 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 Mar 2029
2 goals in 3 appearances for Cerrito, 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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Market1 Feb 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 Miramar Misiones can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2029
Only the photograph left for Owen Falconis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Owen Falconis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerrito the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Feb 2029
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Madura United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Oriental is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.