The Libertad Gazette
Market3 Aug 2026
Monaco come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Libertad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
Gustavo Aguilar has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Libertad can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matías Rojas signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matías Rojas commits to Libertad for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Libertad
Nicolás Freire and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Libertad
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lorenzo Melgarejo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Libertad has picked up the phone to Matías Rojas
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
- Squad The formation has left Jorge Benítez behind
- The dugout Gustavo Aguilar knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Experience through the door at Libertad
- The dugout The manager comes out for Christian Martínez