Marked for Ignacio Jimenez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Jul 2036
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Jul 2036
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Huracan del Paso people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom7 Jul 2036
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Juan Carlos López has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Huracan del Paso have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad7 Jul 2036
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Jiménez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Jul 2036
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.
Squad7 Jul 2036
Diego Sena 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.
Match5 Jul 2036
A 1‑0 win over Racing, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Jul 2036
Marked 7.60. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Market7 Jul 2036
He is 20, and nobody at Huracan del Paso signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market5 May 2036
Henrique Lopes has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Huracan del Paso they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 May 2036
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joaquín Robatto and Huracan del Paso agree another 3 years.
Squad5 May 2036
Franco Moray 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 Huracan del Paso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 May 2036
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Jiménez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 May 2036
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maicol Gularte, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 May 2036
Wages swallow 102% of the Huracan del Paso income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Player ratings5 May 2036
7.33, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Huracan del Paso had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad5 May 2036
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market5 May 2036
“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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Franco Moray asks for a word with the manager
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Pichi
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match23 Feb 2036
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad25 Feb 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huracan del Paso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings25 Feb 2036
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match23 Feb 2036
A 1‑1 draw with Canadian leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout25 Feb 2036
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Interim Coach chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout25 Feb 2036
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Jimenez, and the manager let it.
Market25 Feb 2036
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Huracan del Paso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout25 Feb 2036
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad25 Feb 2036
A season on the outside for Tomas Skubic
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Huracan del Paso has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Uneasy
Market24 Dec 2035
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Huracan del Paso have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad24 Dec 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 Huracan del Paso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Dec 2035
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tacuarembo have kept their man, and Huracan del Paso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market24 Dec 2035
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Huracan del Paso have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets24 Dec 2035
A loan enquiry to Bella Italia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets24 Dec 2035
A loan move for Martín Naser is in the works
Huracan del Paso have made the call to Juventud. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market24 Dec 2035
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Huracan del Paso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout24 Dec 2035
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ignacio Jimenez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Dec 2035
Luciano Bello 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.
Squad17 Dec 2035
11 clean sheets across a season, and the one award on the pitch nobody else is eligible for. Most keepers get through a whole career without a year like it.
Transfer targets17 Dec 2035
Liverpool Montevideo wanted more than $17.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad17 Dec 2035
Santiago Jiménez 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.
Transfer targets17 Dec 2035
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.
Transfer targets17 Dec 2035
A loan move for Enzo Ramírez is in the works
Huracan del Paso have made the call to Liverpool Montevideo. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout17 Dec 2035
Luciano Bello knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luciano Bello trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout17 Dec 2035
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Jimenez, and the manager let it.
Market17 Dec 2035
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Joaquín Robatto’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Nov 2035
34 days out for Lautaro Ibáñez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Huracan del Paso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market26 Nov 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Huracan del Paso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Santiago Jiménez 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.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Oct 2035
A fracture rules Lautaro Ibáñez out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Huracan del Paso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad22 Oct 2035
Santiago Jiménez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market22 Oct 2035
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Joaquín Robatto’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Oct 2035
A fracture rules Lautaro Ibáñez out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Huracan del Paso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market15 Oct 2035
“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 Huracan del Paso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Oct 2035
Words at Huracan del Paso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Jiménez 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.
Squad15 Oct 2035
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Huracan del Paso can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad15 Oct 2035
Aiden Rushenas wants one last season at home
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Huracan del Paso know now that the thought has arrived.
The dugout15 Oct 2035
The manager makes an example of Ignacio Jimenez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Market29 Jan 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 Huracan del Paso can pretend not to have heard.
Market29 Jan 2035
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Erick Rodríguez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Huracan del Paso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad29 Jan 2035
Joaquín Robatto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom29 Jan 2035
Deportivo Italiano will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Matías Gómez has pre-agreed a move to Huracan del Paso, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Market29 Jan 2035
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ignacio Jimenez 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.
Market29 Jan 2035
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Cabrera has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad29 Jan 2035
Words at Huracan del Paso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Jiménez 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.
Squad29 Jan 2035
5 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 dugout29 Jan 2035
Lucas Díaz gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lucas Díaz is on it.