Kauê de Deus

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
4 Jan 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Kauê de Deus

261 Edition

The Nacional Sentinel

28 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Pedro Milans 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 Nacional can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Adrián Spörle: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nacional have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Kauê de Deus has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nacional they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Aldo Pérez has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Nacional can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Nacional

Diego Duarte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Nacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Milans is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Nacional sign Víctor Villalba with one eye on the future

Nobody at the club will say out loud who this signing is for, which is how you know exactly who it is for. Víctor Villalba has been brought in to take a shirt somebody is still wearing.

The dugout

Alan Pereira has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nacional will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

The formation has left Víctor Villalba behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Nacional will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

Back issues
259 Edition

The Nacional Sentinel

14 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Maxloren Castro asks to leave Nacional

“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

A falling-out at Nacional

Alan Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Carlos Espínola pulls a muscle — 17 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 17 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Diego Duarte falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Still no ink between Nacional and Cristhian Paredes

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Nacional, another week without a signature from Cristhian Paredes.

Transfer targets

Nacional ask about Matías Galarza

A loan enquiry to Olimpia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Nacional try to borrow Camilo Mena

Olimpia have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Pedro Milans has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nacional will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Justo Roa 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.

In brief

257 Edition

The Nacional Sentinel

30 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The season ends: position 6 for Nacional

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 35 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Market

Matías Almeida puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nacional, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Sebastián Vargas has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Nacional can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Market

Kauê de Deus has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nacional they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Aldo Pérez wants more than Nacional 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.

Boardroom

Nacional to lose Kauê de Deus for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Kauê de Deus has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nacional

Alan Pereira 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Rodrigo Mosqueda

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Nacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Duarte is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief