Cesar Romo

Central Defender - Torreense
20 Aug 2030
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Marked for Cesar Romo

211 Edition

The Torreense Post

12 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match10 Aug 2030

17 matches without a win for Torreense

The run now stands at 17, and the questions being asked around Torreense are no longer polite ones.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Júnior Santos damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad12 Aug 2030

38 days out for Lima after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torreense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market12 Aug 2030

Hugo Pérez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torreense can pretend not to have heard.

Match10 Aug 2030

The goals have deserted Torreense

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Torreense can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Tempers go at Torreense

Lima 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.

Squad12 Aug 2030

The step up is real for Cesar Romo

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Boardroom12 Aug 2030

5 academy graduates step up at Torreense

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Transfer targets12 Aug 2030

Door shut on Kyle Wootton

Torreense asked and Brighton said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

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The Torreense Post

15 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Jul 2030

A fracture rules Lima out for 66 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torreense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market15 Jul 2030

Juan María Alcedo asks to leave Torreense

“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.

Market15 Jul 2030

Diego Dorregaray has said yes to Rio Ave

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Torreense have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market15 Jul 2030

Only the photograph left for Jonathan Mutombo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jonathan Mutombo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torreense the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad15 Jul 2030

Words exchanged at Torreense

Kévin Zohi 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.

Squad15 Jul 2030

Cesar Romo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad15 Jul 2030

A row about effort at Torreense

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Manu Pozo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets15 Jul 2030

Torreense try to borrow Gianluca Prestianni

Benfica have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets15 Jul 2030

A loan move for Diogo Ferreira is in the works

Torreense have made the call to Benfica. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

200 Edition

The Torreense Post

27 May 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad27 May 2030

115 days out for Lima after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torreense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom27 May 2030

The scrutiny sharpens at Torreense

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Torreense is running low.

The terraces27 May 2030

Supporters organise against the Torreense board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

The dugout27 May 2030

Gustavo Henrique keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Torreense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market27 May 2030

Bob Omoregbe puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Torreense, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad27 May 2030

A falling-out at Torreense

Kévin Zohi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad27 May 2030

A move Cesar Romo would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Cesar Romo is living that version at Torreense, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom27 May 2030

Mauricio Alaniz will join Torreense for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Mauricio Alaniz has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Torreense have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad27 May 2030

A row about effort at Torreense

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martin Rymarenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief