The Rocha Gazette
Market10 Jul 2028
Franco Albín has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rocha they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
Fee done, terms next for Camilo Cándido
Rocha and Nacional have settled on $180.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market10 Jul 2028
Santiago Fernández 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 Rocha can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
The paperwork begins on Ian Colina
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Rocha have done the hard part with River Plate, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Francisco Sorondo 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 Rocha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
Door shut on Lucas Suárez
Rocha asked and La Luz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words at Rocha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Lugano 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Rocha lose Ramon Silva
40 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market10 Jul 2028
Los Halcones are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Rocha will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Diego Bravo San Martín
- Market Rocha and Franco Albín are talking past each other
- Squad This league is too small for Diego Morel