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Upbeat
Match6 Nov 2027
Still nobody has beaten Penarol
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match6 Nov 2027
A 3-1 win over Huachipato, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Matías Arezo left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Matías Arezo will call it something else in private.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.26 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad8 Nov 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Penarol have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market8 Nov 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Tomás Gemelli moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
The terraces8 Nov 2027
The press cannot get enough of Gastón Togni
Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Penarol board back the manager
A public word of support from the board and, more usefully, an understanding about what the next window will look like.
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Triumph
Match24 Jul 2027
Penarol make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Penarol have 5 straight wins of it.
Market26 Jul 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Juventud come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Penarol did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match24 Jul 2027
Racing made Penarol work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A season average of 7.40 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad26 Jul 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Artigas are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Penarol will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Penarol, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch26 Jul 2027
23 appearances at Defensor Sporting and the goals keep coming. Penarol are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Upbeat
Market31 May 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.
Squad31 May 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Penarol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match29 May 2027
Fenix made Penarol work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad31 May 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Lucas Ferreira 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Javier Cabrera unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Javier Cabrera has let it be known that he does not like the way Penarol are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
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Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
Lucas Ferreira: 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.” Penarol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Washington Aguerre commits to Penarol for another 2 years.
Match6 Mar 2027
A 2-2 draw with Nacional leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Upbeat
Market28 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 Penarol can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Mauricio Lemos
“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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Jesús Trindade may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Penarol, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Dec 2026
Nobody is asking about Matías González any more
A fortnight of speculation and then nothing at all — no bid, no talks, no move. He is a Penarol player, and the column can go back to the football.