The Sportivo Trinidense Sentinel
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Thomas Barrios
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thomas Barrios will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sportivo Trinidense the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Oscar Giménez 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 Sportivo Trinidense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ronald Cornet is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Ronald Cornet has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lucas González 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 Sep 2026
Sportivo Trinidense have started building around Faustino Barone
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Tomás Rayer has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sportivo Trinidense 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Nicolás Mana a promise
- Market The shop window has Axel Cañete in it
- The dugout Lucas Franco knocks on the manager's door