The Oriental Sentinel
Squad15 Nov 2027
Enzo Vlaeminch 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Oriental
Dunkan Dorrego 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
No hiding place for Christian Franco
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Franco, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
When it matters, Emiliano Bermúdez plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
A promise honoured for Luckas Carreño
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Oriental told Luckas Carreño something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market15 Nov 2027
The Nahuel Gómez story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nahuel Gómez signs something — a contract at Oriental or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout Nahuel Rodríguez knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The shop window has Bruno Motta in it
- Squad The penny has dropped for Dunkan Dorrego
- Squad Pablo Coates is fit again