The Metropolitanos Sentinel
Squad4 Sep 2028
106 days out for Jeizon Ramírez Chacón after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Metropolitanos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market4 Sep 2028
Jean Franco Fuentes asks to leave Metropolitanos
“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.
Market4 Sep 2028
Andrés Ferro wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Metropolitanos
José Riasco 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Gabriel Delfim 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Metropolitanos lose Junior Ramirez
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market4 Sep 2028
A long bet from Metropolitanos on Iván Paniagua
He is 20, and nobody at Metropolitanos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
Saimon Ramírez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Metropolitanos 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.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
Christian Camarillo 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 Christian Camarillo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market Richard Figueroa linked with a move away
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Sneider Navarro