From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match4 Mar 2028
14 matches without a win for Atenas
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Atenas are no longer polite ones.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fernando Chávez and Atenas agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
85% of the income goes out in wages at Atenas
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad6 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Santiago Cappi
“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.
Match4 Mar 2028
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Uruguay Montevideo will be the happier side with the point.
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Crisis
Match19 Feb 2028
12 matches without a win for Atenas
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Atenas are no longer polite ones.
The terraces21 Feb 2028
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad21 Feb 2028
The medical room confirms 47 days on the sidelines for Brian González, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match19 Feb 2028
Albion left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of César
“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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Mariano Aguilera asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Atenas can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Santiago Cappi knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Atenas, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
A squad written off a fortnight ago has closed ranks. Whatever was said behind that door, it has held so far.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 Jan 2028
Mariano Aguilera asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Alan Mereles 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Atenas
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market6 Dec 2027
“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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Lucas Arzamendia, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Alan Mereles 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad6 Dec 2027
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Diego Aguilera, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.