Marked for Martín Vallejo
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Facundo Briñón damages knee ligaments — 60 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 60 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Nahuel Gómez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
99% of the income goes out in wages at Oriental
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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Facundo Briñón damages knee ligaments — 90 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 90 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad5 Oct 2026
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Oriental training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo Vlaeminch 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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Oriental will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Sep 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Emiliano Bermúdez has his answer from Oriental; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Martín Vallejo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Oriental will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match12 Aug 2026
Oriental bow out of the cup
River Plate go through and Oriental go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.10 for the rest of it.
Squad17 Aug 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 Oriental this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Claudio Innella falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Enzo Vlaeminch
“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.