The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel
Market12 Feb 2029
Only the photograph left for Carlos da Rosa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Carlos da Rosa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Montevideo City Torque the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
Emiliano González signs for Fenix while still at Montevideo City Torque
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Emiliano González has agreed terms with Fenix for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Match10 Feb 2029
At last: Montevideo City Torque win one
7 matches without a win, and then this, against Cerro. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Montevideo City Torque
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Nicolás Servetto 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.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
Montevideo City Torque rebuffed over Emiliano García
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Uruguay Montevideo have kept their man, and Montevideo City Torque go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
Ángel Maciel stays at Penarol as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Montevideo City Torque will try again when the window opens; Penarol may not be selling by then.
Market12 Feb 2029
One of our own: Diego Suarez joins the Montevideo City Torque first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego Suarez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Feb 2029
Montevideo City Torque promote Kevin Perez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kevin Perez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Montevideo City Torque promote Mathias Bentancur from within
- Match Montevideo City Torque see off Cerro
- Player ratings Luciano Cosentino runs at them all day