The Aragua Chronicle
Market15 Jan 2035
Darwin Ramirez asks to leave Aragua
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets15 Jan 2035
Caracas tell Aragua: Edwin Vargas 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.
Squad15 Jan 2035
Words at Aragua training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Mesones 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.
Market15 Jan 2035
Aragua promote David Arango from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Arango has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market15 Jan 2035
One of our own: Darwin Murillo joins the Aragua first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Darwin Murillo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Jan 2035
One of our own: Jose Castillo joins the Aragua first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jose Castillo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad15 Jan 2035
Víctor Dávila is slowing down
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Boardroom15 Jan 2035
Wages eat 116% of everything Aragua 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.
Squad15 Jan 2035
A falling-out at Aragua
Fernando Caicedo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- The dugout Diego Mesones knocks on the manager's door
- Squad No place for Víctor Dávila in the new shape
- The dugout The manager makes Francisco Suárez a promise