Jonathan Ramos

Left Midfielder - Cerro Porteno
19 Sep 2038
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595 Edition

The Cerro Porteno Courier

21 Dec 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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

Back issues
568 Edition

The Cerro Porteno Courier

15 Jun 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ronaldo De Jesús

112 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Aldo Sanabria out for 114 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cerro Porteno will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hugo Martinez

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Jonathan Ramos keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cerro Porteno may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Nicolás Palavecino, 34, rolls back the years — 8.33

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.33 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Roberto Romero hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cerro Porteno can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Darío Espínola

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Darío Espínola will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerro Porteno the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

12 de Octubre expected to open talks for Carlos Fernandez

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cerro Porteno will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

545 Edition

The Cerro Porteno Courier

5 Jan 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jonathan Ramos keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cerro Porteno may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

The season belongs to Santino Giacopetti

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Cerro Porteno have had the benefit of it.

Market

Diego Lopez asks to leave Cerro Porteno

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

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.

Squad

Matías Pérez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matías Pérez commits to Cerro Porteno for another 2 years.

Market

Santino Giacopetti wants more than Cerro Porteno are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

In brief