The Penarol Chronicle
Match7 Feb 2028
Nobody above Penarol
First, on 58 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Market7 Feb 2028
Eric Remedi 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 The request is on a desk at Penarol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Ignacio López signs for Oriental while still at Penarol
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ignacio López has agreed terms with Oriental for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Penarol lose Fernando Mendez
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Matías Espíndola 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 Penarol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Andrés Madruga stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrés Madruga and Penarol agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Penarol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías González is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
When it matters, Nicolás Azambuja plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Tomás Olase
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout Facundo Batista knocks on the manager’s door
- Loan watch 2 goals on loan for Matías Arezo
- Market The shop window has Lorenzo Couture in it