From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Oct 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oriental can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Ángelo Gabrielli 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Washington Silva plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Uneasy
Market27 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oriental can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Match20 Sep 2027
Oriental sink to position 13
26 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Joaquín Viera: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Oriental have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad20 Sep 2027
David Stabile 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 Oriental, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Oriental
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market30 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oriental can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Aug 2027
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Crisis
Match23 Aug 2027
Oriental sink to position 13
26 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad23 Aug 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Nahuel Gómez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Market19 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oriental can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Jul 2027
40 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oriental can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Oriental
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“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.
Match3 Jul 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Rentistas defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Oriental pull $54.2K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
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Uneasy
Market28 Jun 2027
The fee is $110.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Cerrito drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market28 Jun 2027
Uruguay Montevideo pay $95.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Match26 Jun 2027
Three points for Oriental, 3-1 the final word against Tacuarembo in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
No place for David Stabile on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Oriental pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A new face in his position, and Christian Franco suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Oriental have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.