The Liverpool Montevideo Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
133 days out for Rafael Haller after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Liverpool Montevideo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Renzo Machado turns Al-Taawoun down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Aug 2026
PSM come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Liverpool Montevideo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Mathías Bernatene
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mathías Bernatene will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liverpool Montevideo the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Mathías Bernatene has agreed to leave Liverpool Montevideo for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Liverpool Montevideo
Diego Zabala and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Diego Romero signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Diego Romero and Liverpool Montevideo agree another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Thiago Aguirre steps up from the Liverpool Montevideo academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thiago Aguirre 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Federico Martínez in the eights
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Diego Romero
- Squad The formation has left Marcelo Silva behind
- Match Liverpool Montevideo and River Plate take a point apiece