The Estudiantes de Merida Gazette
Market10 Jan 2028
Miguel Pernía 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 Estudiantes de Merida can pretend not to have heard.
Match10 Jan 2028
Estudiantes de Merida are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 50 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Estudiantes de Merida
Miguel Pernía 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.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Colo-Colo tell Estudiantes de Merida: David Fernández 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Estudiantes de Merida promote David Casseres from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Casseres 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
One of our own: Junior Castillo joins the Estudiantes de Merida first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Junior Castillo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Jan 2028
One of our own: Richard Savarino joins the Estudiantes de Merida first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Richard Savarino is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at Estudiantes de Merida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Zalzman is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
César Salazar 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.
In brief
- The dugout César Magallan has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Héctor Acosta's mistake
- Squad A wage question at Estudiantes de Merida