The Portuguesa Gazette
Market21 Jan 2030
Portuguesa say no — this time
The offer from Llaneros for Pavel Tarletskiy was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Tempers go at Portuguesa
Carlos Suárez 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.
Market21 Jan 2030
Junior Ramirez is a Portuguesa player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market21 Jan 2030
As if he never left: Gabriel Gonzalez returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Gabriel Gonzalez is a Portuguesa player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market21 Jan 2030
Sergio Osorio comes home
The shirt still fits. Sergio Osorio is back at Portuguesa, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Leandro Ortiz has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Portuguesa that is a harder question to answer.
In brief
- Squad Pavel Tarletskiy knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad The manager plants his flag on Óscar González