The Mar de Fondo Chronicle
Market3 Jul 2028
Cristian Perez asks to leave Mar de Fondo
“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.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Leandro Díaz is a medical away from Mar de Fondo
The deal with Penarol is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Mar de Fondo
Gaston Sanchez 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.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Mar de Fondo counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Mar de Fondo now.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Door shut on Renzo Cupla
Mar de Fondo asked and Rentistas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout3 Jul 2028
Franco Santos frozen out at Mar de Fondo
This is not rotation. Franco Santos has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Mar de Fondo is pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Mar de Fondo count the cost of losing Nicolas Rossi
53 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Mar de Fondo try to borrow Diego Daguerre
Cerro Largo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Yonatan Brun slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Yonatan Brun is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
In brief
- Boardroom Mar de Fondo sign 3 boys into the academy
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Adrián da Fonte
- The dugout Pablo Rios knocks on the manager’s door