The Danubio Chronicle
Market16 Dec 2030
Mateo Sosa 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 Danubio can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Dec 2030
Tempers go at Danubio
Mateo Rinaldi 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.
Transfer targets16 Dec 2030
No deal for Valentín Luciani at that price
Danubio offered $280.0K; Fenix said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets16 Dec 2030
Wigan Athletic tell Danubio: James Carragher 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.
Squad16 Dec 2030
Juan Millán 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 targets16 Dec 2030
Danubio ask about Stephan Negru
A loan enquiry to Oxford United: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets16 Dec 2030
A loan move for Rodrigo Hernández is in the works
Danubio have made the call to Defensor Sporting. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout16 Dec 2030
Juan Millán has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Juan Millán has written the date down.
Squad16 Dec 2030
Juan Millán has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Danubio that is a harder question to answer.
In brief
- The dugout Lucas Duré knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Facundo Da Silva leaves for nothing
- Market Daniel Pereira leaves for nothing