The Progreso Post
Squad9 Dec 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alejandro García
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets9 Dec 2030
Santiago Sequeira is a medical away from Progreso
The deal with Central Espanol is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market9 Dec 2030
Marco Saravia 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 Progreso can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Transfer targets9 Dec 2030
No thanks: Vicenzo Macchia rejects the move
Progreso had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Liverpool Montevideo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad9 Dec 2030
Words exchanged at Progreso
Facundo de León 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.
Squad9 Dec 2030
Emiliano Álvarez 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.
Boardroom9 Dec 2030
Progreso beat the market to Agustín Miranda from Wanderers
Wanderers will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Agustín Miranda has pre-agreed a move to Progreso, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets9 Dec 2030
Progreso ask about Joel Erlinch
A loan enquiry to River Plate: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout9 Dec 2030
Emiliano Álvarez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Progreso 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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Matías González
- The dugout A promise honoured for Leonel Moya
- The dugout Gonzalo Silva knocks on the manager’s door