The Libertad Gazette
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Libertad
Nicolás Freire and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market5 Oct 2026
Hugo Fernández has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Libertad can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matías Espinoza 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Francisco Bareiro is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Francisco Bareiro has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Miguel Yuste stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Miguel Yuste and Libertad agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market5 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Libertad
Miguel Yuste arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
In brief
- Market Lucas Torres placed on the list
- The dugout The manager comes out for Robert Rojas