The Alto Peru Chronicle
Market31 Jan 2028
Ruben Rodríguez asks to leave Alto Peru
“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.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
The paperwork begins on Matias Rossi
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Alto Peru have done the hard part with Nacional, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Leonardo Parada 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 Alto Peru this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Lito tell Alto Peru: Lisandro Gonzalez is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Manuel Altez 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.
Boardroom31 Jan 2028
101% of the income goes out in wages at Alto Peru
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.
Boardroom31 Jan 2028
Alto Peru have to sell first
The manager has a list and the board has a condition attached to it. That is not a crisis — half of football works this way — but it decides which of the two of them gets his way in August.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
Christian Anderson knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Christian Anderson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market31 Jan 2028
The shop window has Agustín González in it
Alto Peru have let the market know Agustín González can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Market Ignacio Bertone leaves for nothing
- Market Ramon Nunez runs his contract down
- Squad Lessons booked for Luís Assis at Alto Peru