The Sud America Sentinel
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Sud America
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market27 Aug 2029
Valentino Torrente has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sud America they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
Valentino Torrente has agreed to leave Sud America for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Diego Cor in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sud America this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
No signings allowed at Sud America
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
The manager makes an example of Valentino Torrente
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout Kevin Palivoda asks for a word with the manager
- Market The clock does Ramiro Cáceres’s negotiating for him
- Market Sud America put Sebastián Córdova up for sale
- Squad Mathias Ramirez back in training