The Wanderers Herald
The dugout12 Feb 2029
Valentín Rodríguez says Wanderers went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Kevin Ferreira gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kevin Ferreira has just signed for Wanderers, and for once the answer mattered.
Market12 Feb 2029
Enzo Porro 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 Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
No thanks: Léo Ortiz rejects the move
Wanderers had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Flamengo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Words exchanged at Wanderers
Matías Vecino 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.
Market12 Feb 2029
Kevin Ferreira comes home
The shirt still fits. Kevin Ferreira is back at Wanderers, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
7 academy players handed senior numbers at Wanderers
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
Cerro tell Wanderers: Mauricio Aquino 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.
Market12 Feb 2029
One of our own: Franco Perez joins the Wanderers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Franco Perez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Alejandro Cabrera steps up from the Wanderers academy
- Squad Words at Wanderers training over how hard people work
- Boardroom Wanderers board go back on their word