From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match18 Oct 2027
Oriental sink to position 1326 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Adriel da Silva : 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.
Squad18 Oct 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.
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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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Crisis
Match23 Aug 2027
Oriental sink to position 1326 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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Upbeat
Squad29 Mar 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Three points for Oriental , 2-1 the final word against Tacuarembo in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Bruno Simone 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.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
Wages eat 115% of everything Oriental earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad29 Mar 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Oriental have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Enzo Vlaeminch 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.
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Crisis
Squad1 Mar 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Oriental 's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Oriental has to find a result from somewhere.
Match27 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for Oriental against Albion
0-1 to Albion , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Bruno Simone Bruno Simone says Oriental went back on their word
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
112% of the income goes out in wages at Oriental
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Thiago Pereira
“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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
At 34 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Oriental are won quietly and lost loudly.