Gastón Roselló 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Jesús Molina 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.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Durazno has been clear about where Matías Ramírez stands, which is more than many ever get.
Nobody at Durazno 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Durazno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Durazno. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Gastón Roselló 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Jesús Molina 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.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ian Mercado has his answer from Durazno; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Molina 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.
Jairo Amaro 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.
$480.0K settles it between the clubs for Lucas Carrizo
Plaza Colonia have accepted the money. What Durazno do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Jesús Molina 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atenas have kept their man, and Durazno go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
$9.0K was the most the club would pay and Fenix were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Nobody at Durazno 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.
Deutscher FK next, and one man in the Durazno dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Durazno will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Durazno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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.
The dugout3 May 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Rafael Pellistri to a room that had heard them before.
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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Ramírez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Matías Zunino is on it.
Deutscher FK next, and one man in the Durazno dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Jesús Molina 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.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Nobody at Durazno 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
Player ratingsAn afternoon Gabriel Leiva will want back
Up for the corner, and Mateo Carrizo delivers — 7.89
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Mateo Carrizo scored, was marked 7.89, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Jairo Amaro 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.
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.
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Rafael Pellistri on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alejandro Cavanna is on it.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Durazno have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Jesús Molina 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.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrián Campos, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
11 new faces, and Durazno 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.
In brief
SquadWords at Durazno training over how hard people work
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Deportivo Maldonado is saying, and nobody at Durazno is enjoying the guessing.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Durazno ran out of time with Artigas. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Ramírez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Durazno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
SquadQuestions about Jairo Amaro on the training pitch
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Durazno have gone to Wanderers with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
Durazno spend $36.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $36.0K for Julen Ansó, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Molina 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Racing have kept their man, and Durazno go back to a list with one name crossed off it.