The Mar de Fondo Chronicle
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lucas Fernandez
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mar de Fondo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad4 Jan 2027
77 days out for Iván Cardozo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mar de Fondo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Ignacio Martinez 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 Mar de Fondo can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Jan 2027
Mar de Fondo turn down Rampla Juniors for Joaquin Vieira
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market4 Jan 2027
Ignacio Martinez’s move to Uruguay Montevideo falls through
The deal that would have taken Ignacio Martinez to Uruguay Montevideo has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Mar de Fondo with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
No thanks: Joaquín Fernández rejects the move
Mar de Fondo had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Deportivo Maldonado, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Mar de Fondo
Joaquin Vieira 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Pablo Morales at Mar de Fondo
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pablo Morales is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Daniel Rodriguez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout Marcelo Gomes asks for a word with the manager
- Market Hernán Medina leaves for nothing