Thiago Perez

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Plaza Colonia U18
4 Jul 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Thiago Perez

98 Edition

The Plaza Colonia Chronicle

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Plaza Colonia board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Agustín Zapata has said yes to Salto

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Plaza Colonia have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad

18 days out for Thiago Perez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Plaza Colonia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

No end in sight to Plaza Colonia's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Plaza Colonia has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Haibrany Ruiz Díaz puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Plaza Colonia, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces

Plaza Colonia sell a favourite for $620.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Alex Bruno was one of the reasons people came, and $620.0K does not replace that by itself.

Transfer targets

Plaza Colonia agree $77.0K for David Stabile

The clubs have shaken hands with Liverpool Montevideo; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

Only the photograph left for Lucas Urán

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucas Urán will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Plaza Colonia the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Lucas Urán has agreed to leave Plaza Colonia for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

In brief

Back issues
97 Edition

The Plaza Colonia Chronicle

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Plaza Colonia taken apart

0‑3 to Liverpool Montevideo, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Lautaro López puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Plaza Colonia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A fracture rules Thiago Perez out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Plaza Colonia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

The wait goes on for Plaza Colonia

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.

The dugout

Pablo Cabral keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Plaza Colonia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Modibo Traoré has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Plaza Colonia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Plaza Colonia leaking at the back

6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Market

Penarol watching Alex Bruno

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Plaza Colonia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Lucas Carrizo 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.

In brief