The Estudiantes de Merida Gazette
Squad11 Jun 2029
César Magallan damages knee ligaments — 43 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 43 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match9 Jun 2029
8 matches without a win for Estudiantes de Merida
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Estudiantes de Merida are no longer polite ones.
Market11 Jun 2029
Adrián Csenterics agrees terms with Llaneros
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Estudiantes de Merida people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market11 Jun 2029
Axel Ferreira 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 The request is on a desk at Estudiantes de Merida, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets11 Jun 2029
Estudiantes de Merida rebuffed over Vitor Fonseca
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atletico Venezuela have kept their man, and Estudiantes de Merida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets11 Jun 2029
An offer of $190.0K for Luis Moreno Quero
Estudiantes de Merida have gone to Portuguesa 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Words exchanged at Estudiantes de Merida
Jesús Hernández 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Daniel Arango gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Daniel Arango has just signed for Estudiantes de Merida, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Cristhián Rivas 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Estudiantes de Merida beat the market to Jesús Martínez from Deportivo La Guaira
- Match Estudiantes de Merida cannot find the net
- Match Estudiantes de Merida come up short against Carabobo