The Portuguesa Gazette
Market1 Jan 2035
Sergio Caicedo 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 Portuguesa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Jan 2035
A falling-out at Portuguesa
Martín Barrios and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2035
An offer of $71.0K for Juan Diego Arboleda
Portuguesa have gone to Academia Puerto Cabello with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2035
Door shut on Alejo Torres
Portuguesa asked and Racing Club said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad1 Jan 2035
Sebastian Mendoza 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.
Squad1 Jan 2035
Roberto Ramirez out for 17 days
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Roberto Ramirez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market1 Jan 2035
Portuguesa and Martín Barrios are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad1 Jan 2035
This league is too small for Juan Vergara
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Portuguesa will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2035
Portuguesa try to borrow Gastón Vega
Caracas have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- The dugout Lucas Avendaño back under a manager who knows him
- Boardroom Belts tighten at Portuguesa
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Junnior Gámez