Alejandro Morales

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
19 Jan 2033
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Alejandro Morales

333 Edition

The Oriental Sentinel

13 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Leon Zuanigh

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Oriental have done the hard part with Cerrito, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Eduardo Godoy rejects the move

Oriental had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Defensor Sporting, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Tempers go at Oriental

Enzo Vlaeminch 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Emiliano Morales

Oriental asked and Liverpool Montevideo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Facundo Pellistri is in the works

Oriental have made the call to Nacional. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

When it matters, Enzo Vlaeminch plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Alejandro Perez leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Alejandro Perez leaves Oriental the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Market

Alejandro Morales leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Alejandro Morales leaves Oriental the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

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The Oriental Sentinel

28 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Gonzalo Barrios breaks a bone — 104 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 104 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at Oriental

Enzo Vlaeminch 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.

Squad

Words at Oriental training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Toma 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.

Match

River Plate take the points off Oriental

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Kauê Silva makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout

Lucas Barrientos gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Uriel Funes beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Interim Coach: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Nicolás Kozlovsky 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.

In brief