The Oriental Sentinel
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Ángelo Gabrielli out for 117 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Oriental will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Francisco Sorondo will not be coming to Oriental
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Defensor Sporting is saying, and nobody at Oriental is enjoying the guessing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Oriental
Emiliano Bermúdez 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 targets4 Jan 2027
Door shut on Lucas Cascallares
Oriental asked and Atenas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Gabriel Chocobar
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Oriental lose Gaston Olivera
43 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Market Oriental and Gabriel Chocobar are talking past each other
- Squad A step back for Franco Tejera at Oriental
- The dugout Enzo Vlaeminch knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Christian Paiva keeps his manager's vote