The Oriental Sentinel
Squad11 Jun 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ed Nolan
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Oriental lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market11 Jun 2029
Thiago Pereira has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Oriental they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom11 Jun 2029
Thiago Pereira has agreed to leave Oriental 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Martín Vallejo 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 Oriental this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Words at Oriental training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emiliano Bermúdez 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
No hiding place for Alexander Rosso
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexander Rosso, and the manager let it.
Match9 Jun 2029
Oriental come up short against Colon
Colon left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom11 Jun 2029
Wages eat 108% of everything Oriental earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
Martín Vallejo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Player ratings Facundo Briñón spends the afternoon fouling
- Market Jonathan Hernandez leaves for nothing