The Rocha Gazette
Squad13 Sep 2027
Thiago Nascente 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 Rocha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Adrián Reta 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Cristian Correa wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Rocha can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
When it matters, Nicolás Lugano plays
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.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
The goals keep arriving from Facundo Barrett’s exile
6 goals in 21 games at Treze — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Rocha updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Market13 Sep 2027
Talks stall between Rocha and Oliver Ramis
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market13 Sep 2027
36 months and counting on Lukas Neculhueque
Still no offer on the table, and Lukas Neculhueque’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Facundo Butti can feel the drop
The table is being checked before the results are in, which is always the tell. Nobody at Rocha says the word and every senior player in the building is thinking it.
Market13 Sep 2027
The Franco Albín talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rocha know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Squad “I want to play”: Elián Chaves speaks
- The dugout Cristian Correa knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Kevin Riquelme placed on the list