The Tembetary Chronicle
Market8 Jan 2029
Juan González puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Tembetary, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Lucas Varela arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lucas Varela has, at Tembetary, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets8 Jan 2029
Joaquín Santos due for a Tembetary medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market8 Jan 2029
The General Caballero JLM deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Blas Duarte reports back to Tembetary with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Esteban Maidana in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tembetary this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jan 2029
A row about effort at Tembetary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hugo Fernández was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Denis Colmán signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Denis Colmán commits to Tembetary for another 3 years.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
When it matters, Esteban Maidana plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match8 Jan 2029
Tembetary in the hunt for Europe
Position 5, 37 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Tembetary and Iván Cetrini
- Market Juan Flores joins Tembetary on a free
- Boardroom The Tembetary academy earns its keep