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409 Edition

The Dynamo Puerto Gazette

29 May 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match27 May 2034

No end in sight to Dynamo Puerto's wait for a win

16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dynamo Puerto has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces29 May 2034

The mood at Dynamo Puerto has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom29 May 2034

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Dynamo Puerto

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market29 May 2034

Valerio Olivera 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 The request is on a desk at Dynamo Puerto, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad29 May 2034

Tempers go at Dynamo Puerto

Ronny Salazar 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.

Match27 May 2034

A bad afternoon for Dynamo Puerto against Barquisimeto

0‑1 to Barquisimeto, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Boardroom29 May 2034

No signings allowed at Dynamo Puerto

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Boardroom29 May 2034

132% of the income goes out in wages at Dynamo Puerto

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad29 May 2034

Words at Dynamo Puerto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reniel Mendoza is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

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The Dynamo Puerto Gazette

27 Mar 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market27 Mar 2034

Lennon Thompson 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 Dynamo Puerto can pretend not to have heard.

Squad27 Mar 2034

Tempers go at Dynamo Puerto

Ronny Salazar 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.

Squad27 Mar 2034

A row about effort at Dynamo Puerto

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Plaza Barrios was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom27 Mar 2034

The borrowing at Dynamo Puerto reaches $11.6M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $11.6M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

The dugout27 Mar 2034

No hiding place for Rafael Machis

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rafael Machis, and the manager let it.

Squad27 Mar 2034

Home is on Edison Arapi's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dynamo Puerto are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Market27 Mar 2034

Jaime Guerrero is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dynamo Puerto has been clear about where Jaime Guerrero stands, which is more than many ever get.

Looking ahead27 Mar 2034

A reunion for Carlos Díaz

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Metropolitanos in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout27 Mar 2034

Lennon Thompson knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dynamo Puerto, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

375 Edition

The Dynamo Puerto Gazette

3 Oct 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad3 Oct 2033

A knee injury of the worst kind for Robin Ramos

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

Boardroom3 Oct 2033

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Dynamo Puerto can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom3 Oct 2033

Emergency meeting at Dynamo Puerto

The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.

Squad3 Oct 2033

Luis Carrero 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 Dynamo Puerto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom3 Oct 2033

$505.5K from the owner keeps Dynamo Puerto afloat

The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.

Squad3 Oct 2033

Words at Dynamo Puerto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cayetano Fernández is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad3 Oct 2033

Edison Arapi wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dynamo Puerto can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market3 Oct 2033

Still no ink between Dynamo Puerto and Diego Cor

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dynamo Puerto, another week without a signature from Diego Cor.

The dugout3 Oct 2033

Tomás Oneto without the man who signed him

Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Tomás Oneto was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.

In brief

369 Edition

The Dynamo Puerto Gazette

22 Aug 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom22 Aug 2033

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Dynamo Puerto

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market22 Aug 2033

Luca Ramirez asks to leave Dynamo Puerto

“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.

Match22 Aug 2033

Dynamo Puerto finish in position 9

41 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad22 Aug 2033

Words exchanged at Dynamo Puerto

Luis Carrero 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.

Squad22 Aug 2033

Words at Dynamo Puerto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cayetano Fernández is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces22 Aug 2033

The crowd has taken to Edison Arapi

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match20 Aug 2033

Dynamo Puerto get the job done against Academia Puerto Cabello B

A 1‑0 win over Academia Puerto Cabello B, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Boardroom22 Aug 2033

No signings allowed at Dynamo Puerto

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

The dugout22 Aug 2033

Juan Ojeda 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.

In brief