The Tembetary Chronicle
Squad7 Jan 2030
The knee: Darío Melo out for 26 days
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tembetary lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom7 Jan 2030
Tembetary put Angel Gimenez on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market7 Jan 2030
Leandro Vilte asks to leave Tembetary
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom7 Jan 2030
Crisis meeting at Tembetary
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Transfer targets7 Jan 2030
Iovan Roganovich due for a Tembetary medical
Everything agreed with Sportivo Luqueno, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets7 Jan 2030
Paulo Riveros’s move to Tembetary collapses on the table
Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Olimpia; Tembetary go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.
Transfer targets7 Jan 2030
Tembetary bid $1.0M for Diego Fernández
The offer went to General Caballero JLM this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets7 Jan 2030
Rodrigo Frutos turns down Tembetary
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Olimpia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad7 Jan 2030
Words exchanged at Tembetary
Pablo Fernández 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.
In brief
- Squad Words at Tembetary training over how hard people work
- Squad Tembetary count the cost of losing Edgar Lopez
- The dugout The manager's exit leaves Javier Vallejos exposed