Marked for Adrián Leites
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
16 days out for Adrián Leites after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Basanez will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
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 Basanez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Central Espanol have kept their man, and Basanez go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
This league is too small for Silvio López
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. Basanez will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Basanez have made the call to Cerro. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Colon 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Adrián Leites out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Basanez will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Basanez
Guillermo Pfund and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 88% of everything Basanez 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.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Adrián Leites out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Basanez will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Basanez
Guillermo Pfund 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Basanez, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
39 days out for Adrián Leites after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Basanez will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Basanez
Sebastián Medina 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
The shop window has César Horst in it
Basanez have let the market know César Horst can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
46 days out for Adrián Leites after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Basanez will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
César Horst asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Questions about César Horst on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Basanez
Sebastián Medina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.