The Liverpool Montevideo Chronicle
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Nobody could get near Franco Nicola
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Johan Martinez out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Liverpool Montevideo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Age has not caught Rubén Bentancourt yet — 8.02
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.02 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match12 Feb 2028
Liverpool Montevideo make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Mathías Bernatene signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mathías Bernatene and Liverpool Montevideo agree another 4 years.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Jean Pierre Rosso 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 Liverpool Montevideo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Liverpool Montevideo
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at Liverpool Montevideo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Zabala 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
One of our own: Franco Fernandez joins the Liverpool Montevideo first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Franco Fernandez 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 Liverpool Montevideo promote Alvaro Cardozo from within
- Market One of our own: Eduardo Garcia joins the Liverpool Montevideo first team
- Market Liverpool Montevideo promote Ignacio Sanchez from within