The Llaneros Herald
Market10 Dec 2029
Thiago Pereira asks to leave Llaneros
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Words exchanged at Llaneros
Erick Sarmiento 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.
Market10 Dec 2029
Deportivo La Guaira join the queue for Duván Ruiz
Add another name to the list: Deportivo La Guaira have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Duván Ruiz. The answer from Llaneros has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets10 Dec 2029
Door shut on Alejandro Gutiérrez
Llaneros asked and Deportivo Tachira said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Carlos Osorio signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Carlos Osorio commits to Llaneros for another 1 years.
Transfer targets10 Dec 2029
Llaneros try to borrow Daniel Otero
Carabobo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout10 Dec 2029
Victor Ramirez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Llaneros 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.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Nerves in the Llaneros squad
Erick Sarmiento has been around long enough to know what the spring feels like when it goes wrong, and he can feel it. A dressing room that is frightened plays like one.
The dugout10 Dec 2029
Mark Palomino 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 Mark Palomino trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market Richard Herrera leaves for nothing
- Market Darwin Herrera leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Duván Ruiz