The Oriental Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Oriental
Facundo Briñón 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Matías Rigoleto
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Benjamín 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Oriental count the cost of losing Emiliano Bermúdez
72 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kauê Silva signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kauê Silva commits to Oriental for another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Facundo Briñón
Still no offer on the table, and Facundo Briñón’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Market Oriental buy the years ahead of Carlos Santos
- Market Oriental sign Mathias Jimenez, one for the future
- Market Oriental buy the years ahead of Kevin Acosta
- Match Oriental and Fenix cancel each other out