Marked for Jonatan Torres
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Cerro Porteno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Manuel Roffo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Manuel Roffo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerro Porteno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Cerro Porteno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabricio Domínguez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market9 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jonatan Torres’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Freddy Noguera is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market12 Oct 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Blás Riveros wants continental football; whether Cerro Porteno can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerro Porteno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Morel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jonatan Torres’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Gabriel Aguayo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cerro Porteno will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Fabricio Domínguez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jonatan Torres’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Gabriel Aguayo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cerro Porteno will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cerro Porteno will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Zob Ahan for Jorge Morel 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Cerro Porteno have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Manuel Roffo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerro Porteno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mateo Klimowicz falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.