Marked for Nicolás Prieto
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
Fenix say no — this time
The offer from Plaza Colonia for Gastón Colmán was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Fenix, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Fenix
Bryan Olivera 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Fenix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Silva 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
91% of the income goes out in wages at Fenix
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mishawn Molina and Fenix agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
The phone has started ringing about Gastón Colmán again, and this time the name on the line is Plaza Colonia. Fenix are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A move Luciano Miño 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. Luciano Miño is living that version at Fenix, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Alex Silva 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
Fenix are going up
Promotion, confirmed and mathematical, and a town that will not sleep much tonight. Whatever else this season had in it, it ends a division higher than it began.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Diago Fernández has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Fenix
Bryan Olivera 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.
In brief
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Words at Fenix training over how hard people work
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Nicolás Prieto keeps his manager's vote
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jorge González damages knee ligaments — 79 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 79 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fenix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Alex Silva 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Fenix
Bryan Olivera 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Esteban González 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager plants his flag on Nicolás Prieto
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Nicolás Prieto’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Fenix
Bryan Olivera 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Fenix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Silva 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Brian Fernández
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Brian Fernández has come out of that comparison in the side, and Fenix have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fenix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alex Silva 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Nicolás Prieto pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.