Marked for Ramiro Peralta
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Market11 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Juventud have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Pablo Lago reports back to Juventud with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Sebastián Sosa 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Juventud asked and Sport Recife said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The window shuts on the Carlos Airala deal
Juventud ran out of time with Albion. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Geiner Martínez 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Juventud
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Pérez, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Market7 Dec 2026
Nacional come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Juventud did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Juventud people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Juventud can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Juventud they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Rodrigo Chagas 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.
The dugout7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
David Morosini 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Facundo Pérez and Juventud agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
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Upbeat
Market30 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Facundo Pérez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Facundo Pérez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Juventud the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Juventud
Rodrigo Chagas and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Larregui was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sebastián Sosa is on it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Matías Zunino 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.
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Upbeat
Market9 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mauricio Rodríguez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Juventud the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fabrizio Correa and Juventud agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Nov 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 Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín Alaniz, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Geiner Martínez 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Ramiro Peralta has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Juventud 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Gastón Pereiro knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gastón Pereiro trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market9 Nov 2026
The Alejo Cruz talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Juventud know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Juventud is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabrizio Correa commits to Juventud for another 4 years.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Facundo Pérez 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Sebastián Sosa has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Juventud 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Bruno Larregui 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Juventud will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Fabrizio Correa has moved up it.
Market2 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ramiro Peralta signs something — a contract at Juventud or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Market12 Oct 2026
Franco Risso hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Juventud can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Rodrigo Chagas 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Agustín Alaniz 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ramiro Peralta is on it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Matías Zunino 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Martín Boselli is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Juventud has been clear about where Martín Boselli stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Alejo Cruz talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Juventud know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
11 appearances at Atlas and the goals keep coming. Juventud are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Fernando Mimbacas has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Match30 Sep 2026
Juventud bow out of the cup
Plaza Colonia go through and Juventud go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market5 Oct 2026
Facundo Pérez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Juventud they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Juventud
Sebastián Sosa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
Match30 Sep 2026
After 5 games, Juventud finally taste it again
The first defeat in 5 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Plaza Colonia; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Morosini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Camilo Cabrera after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Triumph
Match29 Aug 2026
Juventud through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Racing, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match26 Aug 2026
Juventud march on in the cup
Racing are out and Juventud go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Bruno Arady at 19 — 8.76
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bruno Arady did not need any: 8.76, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match29 Aug 2026
Juventud make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Juventud have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Juventud
Sebastián Sosa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Match26 Aug 2026
Juventud settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Racing spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Walter Domínguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Bruno Arady at 19 — 7.94
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bruno Arady did not need any: 7.94, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
7.91, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad24 Aug 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 Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Juventud
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 3‑1 win over Plaza Colonia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Juventud march on in the cup
Rampla Juniors are out and Juventud go through, 4‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.96, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Gonzalo Gómez takes the afternoon — 8.00
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gonzalo Gómez provided it, and the 8.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Bruno Arady, 19, steals the show — 8.13
Marked 8.13 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 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 Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Agustín Pérez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Geiner Martínez 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Juventud will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Facundo Pérez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Juventud they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Facundo Pérez has agreed terms with Montevideo City Torque for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rodrigo Chagas commits to Juventud for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Juventud
Sebastián Sosa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Carlos Acosta has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Franco Araujo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kevin Garcia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sebastián Sosa commits to Juventud for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Juventud
Alejo Cruz and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sebastián Sosa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match1 Aug 2026
Level with 87 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Juventud had all but put away. Liverpool Montevideo will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Juventud has picked up the phone to Alejo Cruz
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Juventud
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Camilo Cabrera after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.