The Artigas Chronicle
Squad16 Nov 2026
Aaron Branca damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Artigas
Rodrigo Pastorini 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 Nov 2026
Words at Artigas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Martínez 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Maximiliano Freitas
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
No place for Renzo Lescano in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Artigas are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clock does Octavio Pereira’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Artigas could ask drops and the wages Octavio Pereira can ask rise.
In brief
- Market Matías Jones placed on the list
- The dugout Luiz keeps his manager's vote