Kevyn

Central Defender - Free Agent
8 Feb 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Kevyn

225 Edition

The Alianza Lima Sentinel

18 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Eryc Castillo out for 108 days

108 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Alianza Lima lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Oliver Sonne is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Alianza Lima is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Oliver Sonne 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 Alianza Lima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Federico Girotti gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Federico Girotti is on it.

The dugout

Francisco Tcherkaski 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.

The dugout

Guillermo Viscarra 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.

Market

The clock does Federico Girotti’s negotiating for him

1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Alianza Lima could ask drops and the wages Federico Girotti can ask rise.

Market

Alianza Lima and Kevyn are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Oliver Sonne goes off with his country

A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. Alianza Lima would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.

In brief

Back issues
208 Edition

The Alianza Lima Sentinel

22 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Oliver Sonne has said yes to Juan Aurich

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Alianza Lima have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Federico Girotti hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Alianza Lima can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Alianza Lima are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 44 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Boardroom

Alianza Lima close the window on a squad of their own making

10 in and 11 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Only the photograph left for Axel Cañete

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Axel Cañete will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Alianza Lima the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Alianza Lima

Oliver Sonne and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Alianza Lima

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lautaro Garzón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Alianza Lima rebuffed over Cristian Medina

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atletico Nacional have kept their man, and Alianza Lima go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

10 new faces, and Alianza Lima are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief