Kun

Striker - Cerro Largo
15 Apr 2036
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Kun

489 Edition

The Cerro Largo Post

10 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

David Cabrera has said yes to Sud America

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

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mauro Bonilla

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cerro Largo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

120 days out for Juan González after a fracture

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

Market

Kun 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 The request is on a desk at Cerro Largo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Román Colo is a medical away from Cerro Largo

The deal with Caracas is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Miguel Hernández in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerro Largo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ignacio Perez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ignacio Perez and Cerro Largo agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Cerro Largo rebuffed over Facundo Machado

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brown de Adrogué have kept their man, and Cerro Largo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Eyes on Mauro Bonilla again

The phone has started ringing about Mauro Bonilla again, and this time the name on the line is Rocha. Cerro Largo are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

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The Cerro Largo Post

21 May 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Nicolás Gracés

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicolás Gracés will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerro Largo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

6 saves: Axell de los Santos was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Blas Moyano 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.

Squad

Miguel Hernández in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerro Largo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cerro Largo against Tacuarembo

1‑2 to Tacuarembo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Nicolás Sánchez 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.

Squad

Lautaro López 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.

Squad

Kun signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kun commits to Cerro Largo for another 3 years.

The dugout

Interim Coach: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

441 Edition

The Cerro Largo Post

8 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

44 days out for Nicolás Gracés after a fracture

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

Market

Braian Vargas hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cerro Largo can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Carlos Castillo has one foot out of the door

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

Boardroom

Cerro Largo to lose Carlos Castillo for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Carlos Castillo has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cerro Largo

Miguel Hernández 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.

Transfer targets

Cerro Largo baulk at the price for Thiago Alberghini

Plaza Colonia wanted more than $53.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Facundo González

Cerro Largo asked and River Plate 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

Germán Mansilla 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.

Market

Talks stall between Cerro Largo and Nicolás Gracés

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief