Marked for Máximo Alonso
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Máximo Alonso 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Facundo Milán
“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.
Back issues
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Central Espanol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rodrigo Muníz and Central Espanol agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Central Espanol have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Isaac Méndez, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
This league is too small for Thiago Silvero
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. Central Espanol will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The bid was some way short and Central Espanol did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Máximo Alonso 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The fee is $58.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Cerrito drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market14 Dec 2026
Add another name to the list: Colon have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Matías Kusmanis. The answer from Central Espanol has not changed — yet.
Market14 Dec 2026
Lautaro Fernández is 20, and Central Espanol have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Steady
Market23 Nov 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 Central Espanol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Nov 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 Central Espanol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Sebastián Sánchez has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 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 Central Espanol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market12 Oct 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Fernando Camarda may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Máximo Alonso 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Isaac Méndez knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Isaac Méndez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Guillermo Gandolfo plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Isaac Méndez 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 Central Espanol can pretend not to have heard.
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 Central Espanol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Mariano Aguilera has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Central Espanol can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 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 Central Espanol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Santa Clara pay $470.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Raúl Tarragona
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Máximo Alonso's contract
48 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match8 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Rampla Juniors came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Isaac Méndez 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.