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The Cerro Porteno Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jonatan Torres has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Cerro Porteno can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Pablo Vegetti signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pablo Vegetti commits to Cerro Porteno for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Cerro Porteno

Jonatan Torres 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Cerro Porteno

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Vegetti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

The clock runs on Manuel Roffo's contract

49 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

Too much change too quickly at Cerro Porteno

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief