The Portuguesa Gazette
Market13 Aug 2035
Santiago Villegas 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 The request is on a desk at Portuguesa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Words exchanged at Portuguesa
Lautaro Lovazzano and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad13 Aug 2035
A move Formiga would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Formiga is living that version at Portuguesa, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Miguel Ferraresi 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.
Match11 Aug 2035
Trujillanos take the points off Portuguesa
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout13 Aug 2035
Jesús Ortíz 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.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Too much change too quickly at Portuguesa
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout13 Aug 2035
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.
Market13 Aug 2035
Portuguesa buy the years ahead of Formiga
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Portuguesa and Jesús Ortíz
- Market Experience through the door at Portuguesa
- The dugout Fabrizio Fazzolari gets picked when it counts