Julian Diaz

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132 Edition

The Oriental Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Feb 2029

Mathías Cubero damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

José Irureta Goyena: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Oriental have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Enzo Vlaeminch 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 Oriental this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Alexis Saavedra signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexis Saavedra commits to Oriental for another 5 years.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Words at Oriental training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Rodríguez 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.

Market5 Feb 2029

Still no ink between Oriental and Mathías Cubero

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Oriental, another week without a signature from Mathías Cubero.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

Francisco Burgio has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Oriental will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Match5 Feb 2029

Oriental have something to play for

Position 5 on 40 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

Iván González asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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The Oriental Sentinel

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Jan 2029

Mathías Cubero damages knee ligaments — 35 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 35 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.

The dugout15 Jan 2029

Lautaro Morales says Oriental 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.

Squad15 Jan 2029

A falling-out at Oriental

Enzo Vlaeminch and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets15 Jan 2029

Defensor Sporting tell Oriental: Lautaro Navarro is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad15 Jan 2029

Nicolás Rodríguez 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.

Squad15 Jan 2029

7 new faces, and Oriental 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.

The dugout15 Jan 2029

Emilio Crespo knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emilio Crespo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market15 Jan 2029

The market said no: Emilio Crespo stays put

Oriental opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Emilio Crespo stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.

Market15 Jan 2029

Oriental shop where it costs nothing

Julian Diaz signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

In brief

77 Edition

The Cortulua Post

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Jan 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Álvarez

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cortulua lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad17 Jan 2028

75 days out for Alexis Ordóñez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cortulua will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market17 Jan 2028

Santiago Mejia is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cortulua is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market17 Jan 2028

The Deportivo Pasto deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Jesus Gomez reports back to Cortulua with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad17 Jan 2028

A row about effort at Cortulua

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Sinisterra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Daniel Arcos 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 Cortulua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout17 Jan 2028

No hiding place for Àlex López

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Àlex López, and the manager let it.

Market17 Jan 2028

The shop window has Alexis Ordóñez in it

Cortulua have let the market know Alexis Ordóñez can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout17 Jan 2028

Jahir Scott asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief