Marked for Lautaro Rivero
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Tacuarembo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Mauro Estol in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Lautaro Rivero is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Tacuarembo asked and Liverpool Montevideo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Vargas 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes Manuel Núñez a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tacuarembo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Douglas Jardel 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lautaro Rivero is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Vargas 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Douglas Jardel 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Diego Méndez 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 Tacuarembo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Santiago Vargas has written the date down.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clock does Ezequiel Silveira’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Tacuarembo could ask drops and the wages Ezequiel Silveira can ask rise.
Market21 Sep 2026
The Ángel Maciel talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tacuarembo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The training reports on Enzo Acosta are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.