The Cerro Porteno Courier
Squad21 Dec 2037
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matías Pérez
159 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cerro Porteno lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2037
Marcelo Chaparro breaks a bone — 81 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Dec 2037
Tempers go at Cerro Porteno
Omar Alderete 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.
Market21 Dec 2037
Fernando Zayas has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cerro Porteno they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Dec 2037
Leandro Matos gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Leandro Matos has just signed for Cerro Porteno, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom21 Dec 2037
Zaid Romero will join Cerro Porteno for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Zaid Romero has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Cerro Porteno have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
In brief
- Market Nacional join the queue for Santiago Santa Cruz
- Market Still no ink between Cerro Porteno and Jonathan Ramos
- Market Cerro Porteno pick up Leandro Matos for nothing
- Boardroom Cerro Porteno board back the manager