The Mar de Fondo Chronicle
Squad30 Nov 2026
The knee: Lucas Fernandez out for 72 days
72 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mar de Fondo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Santiago Martínez 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Federico Ramirez
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Mar de Fondo will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 100% of the Mar de Fondo income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Mar de Fondo
Joaquin Vieira 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
The Bruno Da Silva talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mar de Fondo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Marcelo Gomes
- Loan watch Ivan Godoy's loan at Sabail nearly up