The Lito Chronicle
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Thiago Porley: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lito have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market14 Feb 2028
Tomás Sugo is a Lito player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Facundo Romero 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 Lito this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Lito count the cost of losing Joaquín Sánchez
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Óscar García gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Óscar García has just signed for Lito, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Lito
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
Lito rebuffed over Facundo Godoy
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Frontera Rivera have kept their man, and Lito go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at Lito training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathias Castro 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
One of our own: Leonardo Ugarte joins the Lito first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leonardo Ugarte is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Lito promote Maximiliano Rossi from within
- Market One of our own: Juan Silva joins the Lito first team
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Matías Losada