The Penarol Chronicle
Squad16 Sep 2030
Eric Remedi says Penarol went back on their word
“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.
Market16 Sep 2030
Eric Remedi is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Penarol is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market16 Sep 2030
Heiderber Ramírez puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Penarol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Tempers go at Penarol
Franco González 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.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Penarol lose Ignacio Alegre
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Penarol count the cost of losing Ignacio López
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Loan watch16 Sep 2030
The goals keep arriving from Brandon Álvarez’s exile
7 goals in 26 games at La Luz — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Penarol updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch16 Sep 2030
Stiven Muhlethaler keeps scoring at La Luz
20 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market16 Sep 2030
The clock does Heiderber Ramírez’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Penarol could ask drops and the wages Heiderber Ramírez can ask rise.