A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bella Italia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Bruno Carracedo 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.
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bella Italia can pretend not to have heard.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bella Italia have done the hard part with Montevideo City Torque, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Liverpool Montevideo keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Salvador Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Lucas Mazieres 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.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lucas Rancic has, at Bella Italia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ignacio Gonzalez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Fernandez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.