Marked for Gianluca López
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mathías Abero 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager plants his flag on Cristian Lima
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Cristian Lima’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mathías Abero 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrés Samurio
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gianluca López knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gianluca López trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Uruguay Montevideo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
599% of the income goes out in wages at Uruguay Montevideo
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tobías Correa named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Tobías Correa is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.