The Monagas Sentinel
Market14 Sep 2026
Alberson Rodríguez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Monagas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Franklin González 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Monagas
Joyce Ossa 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Monagas count the cost of losing Luis Gonzalez
41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Jesús Paz's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Alberson Rodríguez
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Santiago Natera gets picked when it counts
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Joyce Ossa
- Squad José Carrasco is the talk of the training ground