Marked for Bruno Ramirez
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Steady
Squad22 Oct 2035
Octavio Pereira damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.
Squad22 Oct 2035
A fracture rules Bruno Ramirez out for 62 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Artigas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad22 Oct 2035
Nahuel López was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Steady
Squad15 Oct 2035
Octavio Pereira damages knee ligaments — 56 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 56 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.
Squad15 Oct 2035
A fracture rules Bruno Ramirez out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Artigas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Oct 2035
Carlos da Rosa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Steady
Squad8 Oct 2035
Octavio Pereira damages knee ligaments — 63 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 63 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.
Squad8 Oct 2035
A fracture rules Bruno Ramirez out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Artigas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Oct 2035
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Artigas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Oct 2035
Pedro Ramallo: 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.” Artigas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Oct 2035
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ignacio Neira and Artigas agree another 2 years.
Boardroom8 Oct 2035
$2.0M on the table at Artigas
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
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Steady
Squad1 Oct 2035
Octavio Pereira damages knee ligaments — 70 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 70 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.
Squad1 Oct 2035
A fracture rules Bruno Ramirez out for 83 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Artigas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad1 Oct 2035
Nahuel López 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 Artigas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad17 Sep 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Octavio Pereira
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Artigas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad17 Sep 2035
Bruno Ramirez: 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.” Artigas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad17 Sep 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Artigas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Sep 2035
Carlos da Rosa falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market17 Sep 2035
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nicolás Castagno’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market17 Sep 2035
7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Artigas could get for him.
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Crisis
Squad3 Sep 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Octavio Pereira
98 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Artigas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings3 Sep 2035
A first appearance Bruno Ramirez will want to forget — 5.79
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.79, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad3 Sep 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Artigas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Sep 2035
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Sep 2035
Jonathan Brizuela falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad3 Sep 2035
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom3 Sep 2035
$2.0M on the table at Artigas
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Player ratings3 Sep 2035
An afternoon Ramon Sanchez will want back
Marked 4.46. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Steady
Squad9 Jul 2035
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad9 Jul 2035
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings9 Jul 2035
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings9 Jul 2035
Marked 6.17 on 20 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Player ratings9 Jul 2035
Up for the corner, and Santino Quinteros delivers — 7.59
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Santino Quinteros scored, was marked 7.59, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Match7 Jul 2035
7 unbeaten for Artigas
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Artigas did not have in the autumn.
Squad9 Jul 2035
Nahuel López was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad9 Jul 2035
Carlos da Rosa falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match7 Jul 2035
It needed Santino Quinteros to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Nacional, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Squad2 Jul 2035
Carlos da Rosa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match30 Jun 2035
Still nobody has beaten Artigas
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad2 Jul 2035
Ignacio Neira falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings2 Jul 2035
A performance of 8.41 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad2 Jul 2035
Renzo Rabino gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings2 Jul 2035
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom2 Jul 2035
Artigas release $2.0M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Market2 Jul 2035
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad2 Jul 2035
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.