The Estudiantes de Merida Gazette
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tito Rojas
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estudiantes de Merida lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market11 Jan 2027
Estudiantes de Merida turn down Chippa United for Ander Izarra
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Estudiantes de Merida
Cristhián Rivas 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Adrián Csenterics at Estudiantes de Merida
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Adrián Csenterics is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Estudiantes de Merida rebuffed over Luciano Riveros
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. San Martín SJ have kept their man, and Estudiantes de Merida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Estudiantes de Merida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristopher 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
No hiding place for David Zalzman
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Zalzman, and the manager let it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Jesús Hernández linked with a move away
The name of Jesús Hernández keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Estudiantes de Merida say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Miguel Celis has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Miguel Celis has written the date down.
In brief
- Market Carlos Rueda placed on the list
- The dugout Victor Ramirez asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager comes out for Jean Frank Gutiérrez