The Mineros de Guayana Courier
Market11 Feb 2030
Santiago Alegria has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mineros de Guayana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Tempers go at Mineros de Guayana
Andrés Ferro 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.
Match9 Feb 2030
Mineros de Guayana find a way past Zamora
Zamora made Mineros de Guayana work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings11 Feb 2030
A masterclass from José Rondón
Marked 8.55 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings11 Feb 2030
Alexis Messidoro in the eights
A performance of 8.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Ezequiel Gnemmi gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market11 Feb 2030
Rafael Sánchez linked with a move away
The name of Rafael Sánchez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mineros de Guayana say nothing, which says plenty.
Market11 Feb 2030
The clock does Alexis Messidoro’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Mineros de Guayana could ask drops and the wages Alexis Messidoro can ask rise.
Squad11 Feb 2030
José Rondón is off the mark for Mineros de Guayana
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
In brief
- Squad Gianfabrizio González finally opens his account
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Jesús Figueroa
- The terraces The press have found their man in José Rondón