The Terremoto Sentinel
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
Sergio Diaz is out at Terremoto
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Ezequiel Viera damages knee ligaments — 121 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 121 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
Francisco Fernández: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Terremoto have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
Kevin Barrios minds the shop at Terremoto
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Kevin Barrios recited it perfectly.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
No thanks: Tomás Viera rejects the move
Terremoto had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Nacional, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match10 Feb 2029
Terremoto are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Terremoto
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.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
Terremoto counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Terremoto now.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
Liverpool Montevideo tell Terremoto: Jonathan Pellistri is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- Market Brian Suarez steps up from the Terremoto academy
- Market Jorge Cabrera steps up from the Terremoto academy
- Market Terremoto promote Luis Hernandez from within