The Junior Chronicle
Market8 Nov 2027
Mauro Silveira 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 Junior can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Déiber Caicedo says Junior went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market8 Nov 2027
Jean Carlos Pestaña 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 Junior can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad8 Nov 2027
José Raúl Zúñiga 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 Junior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A move Mathias Páez would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mathias Páez is living that version at Junior, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Junior
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean Carlos Pestaña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
No hiding place for Guillermo Paiva
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guillermo Paiva, and the manager let it.
Market8 Nov 2027
A long bet from Junior on Mathias Páez
He is 20, and nobody at Junior signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad8 Nov 2027
5 new faces, and Junior 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
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Tití Rodríguez’s exile
- The dugout José Enamorado knocks on the manager's door
- Boardroom Junior pull $11.7M back off the table