The Artigas Chronicle
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Emilio MacEachen
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Artigas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Artigas
Diego Ftacla and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Adrián Leites 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Artigas promote Alejandro Gomez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alejandro Gomez 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Maximiliano Freitas gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Artigas
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Artigas and Octavio Pereira
- The dugout Franco Martínez keeps his manager's vote