“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Montevideo City Torque can pretend not to have heard.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Montevideo City Torque have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Montevideo City Torque, and 3 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Pablo Siles keeps the shirt for now, at Montevideo City Torque's convenience rather than his own.
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gary Kagelmacher and Montevideo City Torque agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Fenix will want this one forgotten quickly: 3-0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Montevideo City Torque were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Montevideo City Torque is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The fee is $330.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Danubio drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
A season average of 7.02 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Montevideo City Torque know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
The fee is $240.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Artigas drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
The fee is $110.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Central Espanol drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
A 2-1 win over Miramar Misiones, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The name of Ignacio Molina has come up in conversations Montevideo City Torque were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Montevideo City Torque, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Franco Torgnascioli plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Montevideo City Torque, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Franco Torgnascioli plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Montevideo City Torque, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Diogo Guzmán and Montevideo City Torque agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Marcelo Tabárez arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.