Marked for Oliver Ramis
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Upbeat
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Albion
Federico Puente 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 dugout30 Aug 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Albion
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martín Iglesias was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martín Iglesias, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Román Gutiérrez 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Triumph
Market5 Jul 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Albion, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jul 2027
19 goals and a season average of 7.48. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market5 Jul 2027
Add another name to the list: Cerro Largo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tobías Figueroa. The answer from Albion has not changed — yet.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Albion go back to the board over Vitinho
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $80.5K — a club that wants Vitinho enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Albion
Thiago Cattanese 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.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Jul 2027
Three points for Albion, 1‑0 the final word against Artigas in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Oliver Ramis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Cobresal
Jorge Pinos 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Racing Club have kept their man, and Cobresal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sergio Carrasco and Cobresal agree another 4 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Cobresal will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Martín Quezada 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
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 Nicolás Millán has written the date down.
Market4 Jan 2027
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Nicolás Barros Schelotto arrives from Gimnasia La Plata with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Steady
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $222.5K — a club that wants Yastin Cuevas enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
$200.0K on the table at Colo-Colo. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Cobresal
Jorge Pinos 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.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
$14.0K on the table at Union Espanola. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Cobresal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Julián Brea was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to César Yanis, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 47 days on the sidelines for Oliver Ramis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alejandro Santander and Cobresal agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market7 Dec 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cobresal will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
In brief
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The dugout
Franco Frías has become a man the manager trusts
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The dugout
Nicolás Millán asks for a word with the manager
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Boardroom
Open for business: Cobresal enter the window
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Steady
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 Cobresal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leandro Cañete, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Franco Frías gets picked when it counts
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 Franco Frías is on it.