The Rampla Juniors Herald
Market7 Feb 2028
Juan Raffaelli agrees terms with Lito
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rampla Juniors people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Fee done, terms next for Thiago Porley
Rampla Juniors and Nacional have settled on $49.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Rampla Juniors
Federico Cristóforo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Ángel Llanes stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ángel Llanes and Rampla Juniors agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Montevideo City Torque tell Rampla Juniors: Nahuel Leivas is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Feb 2028
7 new faces, and Rampla Juniors are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market7 Feb 2028
Rampla Juniors buy the years ahead of Cristofer Márques
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A step back for Nahuel López at Rampla Juniors
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Nahuel López
“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.
In brief
- Market Yamil García linked with a move away
- The dugout Johnson Ayaane has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Joaquín Muñoz knocks on the manager's door