From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Michael López
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match17 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Montevideo City Torque will be the happier side with the point.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
8 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Diego Tissera
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Michael López asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Bueno
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match27 Feb 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Crisis
Squad22 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michael López commits to Plaza Colonia for another 3 years.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Pablo García gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match20 Feb 2027
0-1 to Danubio, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Yacouba Meïté may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Plaza Colonia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Michael López plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Joaquín Silva asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market28 Dec 2026
Experience through the door at Plaza Colonia
Diego Tissera arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Joaquín Silva knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Plaza Colonia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Michael López has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.