The Defensor Sporting Courier
Market9 Nov 2026
Erico Cuello is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Defensor Sporting is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Defensor Sporting
Axel Frugone was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Defensor Sporting
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edgar Elizalde was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market9 Nov 2026
Still no ink between Defensor Sporting and Tobías Castellano
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Defensor Sporting, another week without a signature from Tobías Castellano.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Erico Cuello has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Defensor Sporting will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Country calls for Juan Pablo Goicochea
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Defensor Sporting lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.
In brief
- Squad The penny has dropped for Lisandro Morales
- The dugout The manager comes out for Álex Perdomo