Ramon Silva

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Rocha U20
6 May 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ramon Silva

102 Edition

The Rocha Gazette

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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 targets

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.

Market

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 targets

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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

Back issues
46 Edition

The Rocha Gazette

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Rocha

Position 14 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Rocha

A 0‑3 beating by Tacuarembo was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match

No end in sight to Rocha's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Rocha has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Juan Martín Gonella puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rocha, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Franco Suárez

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Rocha have done the hard part with Racing, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Rocha

Thiago Nascente and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

The decline has begun for Pablo Caballero

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 40 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Rocha is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Transfer targets

Rocha rebuffed over Sergio Cortelezzi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Juventud have kept their man, and Rocha go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

One of our own: Camilo Coates joins the Rocha first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Camilo Coates is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief