Ignacio López

Central Defender - Penarol U20
18 Nov 2030
Monday
Process

Marked for Ignacio López

216 Edition

The Penarol Chronicle

16 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Penarol, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 watch

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 watch

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.

Market

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.

In brief

  • Boardroom Penarol keep producing them
  • Boardroom The Penarol board choose calm
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212 Edition

The Penarol Chronicle

19 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Eric Remedi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Penarol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Heiderber Ramírez 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 Penarol can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Penarol

Alexander Machado 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.

Squad

Franco González is carrying Penarol

8 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Agustín Aguirre 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.

Squad

Penarol count the cost of losing Ignacio López

45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alexander Machado

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Honours even between Penarol and Cerro

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Leandro Umpiérrez

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief