The Llaneros Herald
Squad27 Dec 2027
A fracture rules Miguel Machis out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Llaneros will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market27 Dec 2027
Rafael Ramirez 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 Llaneros can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Richard Otero signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Richard Otero commits to Llaneros for another 3 years.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A falling-out at Llaneros
Alejandro Gonzalez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
Too dear: Llaneros walk away from Jorge Sánchez
$41.0K was the most the club would pay and Deportivo La Guaira were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
Metropolitanos tell Llaneros: Salvador Bolívar 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Salomon Gonzalez out for 14 days
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Salomon Gonzalez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
Llaneros ask about Ángelo Rivas
A loan enquiry to Metropolitanos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Miguel Arango gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Miguel Arango is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Carlos Rincon knocks on the manager’s door
- Market David Machis leaves for nothing
- Market Salomon Ferraresi leaves for nothing