Marcelo Tabárez

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Montevideo City Torque
10 Jan 2028
Monday
Process
74 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Newell's Old Boys come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Montevideo City Torque did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Marcelo Tabárez hands in a written request

“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.

Market

Cerrito watching Rodrigo Sena

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Montevideo City Torque have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

La Luz are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Montevideo City Torque will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Ezequiel Busquets gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Pablo Lago 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.

In brief

Back issues
73 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Montevideo City Torque turn down Penarol for Diogo Guzmán

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Rodrigo Sena: that is not what I was promised

“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.

Market

Montevideo City Torque sign Federico Dafonte for $510.0K

The paperwork is done: Federico Dafonte joins from Boston River in a deal worth $510.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Loan watch

Ignacio Molina has seen enough of Lillestrom

“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.

Squad

Pablo Siles has company in his position

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.

Market

Marcelo Tabárez placed on the list

Montevideo City Torque have made Marcelo Tabárez available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

72 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Montevideo City Torque are in Europe

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.

Match

Montevideo City Torque up to position 2

51 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match

5 matches without a win for Montevideo City Torque

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Montevideo City Torque are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Denis Bouanga is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.43 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Montevideo City Torque turn down Cerrito for Rodrigo Sena

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match

Montevideo City Torque come up short against Once Caldas

Once Caldas left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Artigas are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Montevideo City Torque will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Montevideo City Torque lose Gonzalo Viotti

16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marcelo Tabárez

“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.

In brief

71 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Marcelo Tabárez says Montevideo City Torque went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Artigas watching Luka Andrade

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Montevideo City Torque have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Nahuel da Silva

“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.

Squad

Gary Kagelmacher stays put

“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.

Boardroom

Montevideo City Torque release $2.0M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Market

Marcelo Tabárez told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Marcelo Tabárez has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Montevideo City Torque.

In brief

54 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

No mercy from Montevideo City Torque

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.

Squad

Denis Bouanga is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.45 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

AEL come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Montevideo City Torque did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

Montevideo City Torque make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Montevideo City Torque have 3 straight wins of it.

Market

Rodrigo Sena is on his way

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.

Squad

Marcelo Tabárez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcelo Tabárez commits to Montevideo City Torque for another 1 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marcelo Tabárez

“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.

Squad

Pablo Siles is off the mark for Montevideo City Torque

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Market

Montevideo City Torque and Gonzalo Viotti are talking past each other

“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

47 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Still nobody has beaten Montevideo City Torque

The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Marcelo Tabárez says Montevideo City Torque went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Axel Montaña is a Montevideo City Torque player

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.

Squad

Lucas Duré is the real thing at 21

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.

Squad

Franco Torgnascioli gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Denis Bouanga is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.24 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Oriental expected to open talks for Rodrigo Sena

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Montevideo City Torque will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match

Honours even between Montevideo City Torque and Racing

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Loan watch

4 goals on loan for Nahuel da Silva

10 appearances at Gaziantep and the goals keep coming. Montevideo City Torque are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

46 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Still nobody has beaten Montevideo City Torque

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Montevideo City Torque are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 29 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Artigas come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Montevideo City Torque did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Yonathan Gorgoroso is a Montevideo City Torque player

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.

Market

Ignacio Gonella is a Montevideo City Torque player

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.

Match

Montevideo City Torque get the job done against Miramar Misiones

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.

Market

Ignacio Molina attracts admirers

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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marcelo Tabárez

“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.

Squad

Bautista Kociubinski 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.

In brief

17 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marcelo Tabárez knocks on the manager's door

“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.

Squad

Franco Torgnascioli keeps his manager's vote

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.

Loan watch

Nahuel da Silva's loan at Umraniyespor nearly up

17 days of the agreement remain and 7 appearances sit behind him. Somebody has to decide what happens next.

16 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marcelo Tabárez says Montevideo City Torque went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Gastón Rodríguez gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Diogo Guzmán keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Diogo Guzmán plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

In brief

9 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Franco Romero gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Marcelo Tabárez knocks on the manager's door

“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.

Squad

Franco Torgnascioli keeps his manager's vote

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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marcelo Tabárez 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.

Squad

Diogo Guzmán keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Diogo Guzmán plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

Squad

Esteban Obregón back in training

A welcome sight on the training pitch: Esteban Obregón has come through recovery and is pushing for a place again.

7 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Montevideo City Torque and Igor Leonardi are talking past each other

“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.

Squad

Igor Leonardi knocks on the manager's door

“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.

Squad

Marcelo Tabárez looks at the other side of the line

“I have started watching training differently.” At 33 he has begun the badges, which is how most of the men in the dugout began.

In brief

2 Edition

The Montevideo City Torque Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Diogo Guzmán stays put

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Montevideo City Torque against Racing

0-1 to Racing, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Nahuel da Silva gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

The clock runs on Franco Pizzichillo's contract

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.

Squad

Diogo Guzmán 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.

Market

Experience through the door at Montevideo City Torque

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.

In brief