From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match23 Apr 2029
Wanderers sink to position 159 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match21 Apr 2029
4 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Market23 Apr 2029
Cristian Núñez has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wanderers they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match21 Apr 2029
1-2 to Liverpool Montevideo , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad23 Apr 2029
José Alberti 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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Leandro Zazpe 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 Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Apr 2029
“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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Enzo Porro and Wanderers agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Alan García 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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Apr 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mateo Acosta and Wanderers agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Diego Píriz 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.
Match7 Apr 2029
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Cerro will be the happier side with the point.
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Crisis
Match31 Mar 2029
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Apr 2029
“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.
Squad2 Apr 2029
The captaincy has been taken off Nahuel Furtado . Wanderers will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom26 Mar 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Wanderers
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market26 Mar 2029
Cristian Núñez has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wanderers they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match24 Mar 2029
Three points for Wanderers , 2-1 the final word against Fenix in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Wanderers have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
Match14 Mar 2029
Wanderers through in the cupA 1-0 win over Colon , and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market19 Mar 2029
The name of Esteban Crucci has come up in conversations Wanderers were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match17 Mar 2029
Plaza Colonia left with the points after a 2-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Wanderers have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Every debut is a small story about the future: Emiliano Machado , 19 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Crisis
Match10 Mar 2029
16 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
“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.
Diego Píriz Diego Píriz says Wanderers went back on their word
Match10 Mar 2029
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad12 Mar 2029
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market12 Mar 2029
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match3 Mar 2029
15 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nahuel Furtado and Wanderers agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Mar 2029
The manager makes an example of Agustín Buffa
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Feb 2029
14 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom26 Feb 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Wanderers
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market26 Feb 2029
Cristian Núñez has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wanderers they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Feb 2029
“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.
Match24 Feb 2029
Nacional left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Feb 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías Alegría and Wanderers agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match17 Feb 2029
13 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Feb 2029
The manager makes an example of Pablo Suárez
“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.
Match17 Feb 2029
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Progreso will be the happier side with the point.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match10 Feb 2029
12 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Juan Cekalovich : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Feb 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Feb 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Feb 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Feb 2029
The shirt still fits. Gonzalo Varela is back at Wanderers , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad12 Feb 2029
“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.
Match10 Feb 2029
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Rentistas defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Jonathan Urretaviscaya has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Wanderers know, and have known for weeks.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad5 Feb 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Felipe Serrés and Wanderers agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Feb 2029
The manager makes an example of Agustín Buffa
“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.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
$2.4M taken back off the Wanderers table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom29 Jan 2029
Pressure builds in the Wanderers boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Agustín Buffa 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.
Market29 Jan 2029
Wanderers have made Fabián Borges available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match22 Jan 2029
Wanderers are in real trouble nowPosition 14, 30 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad22 Jan 2029
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 Jan 2029
“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.
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Crisis
Squad15 Jan 2029
38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Alan García 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 Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market15 Jan 2029
Wanderers spent the window trying to move Nicolás Olivera on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
Market15 Jan 2029
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Cristian Núñez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market15 Jan 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wanderers know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Miguel Pereira has until the next board meetingWhat was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Wanderers can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emiliano Machado commits to Wanderers for another 4 years.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
$2.4M taken back off the Wanderers table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market8 Jan 2029
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Alan García 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
Pressure builds in the Wanderers boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market1 Jan 2029
Atenas come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Wanderers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad1 Jan 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fabián Borges and Wanderers agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Wanderers will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad1 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
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Uneasy
Match25 Dec 2028
Wanderers are in real trouble nowPosition 14, 30 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market25 Dec 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Dec 2028
70 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad18 Dec 2028
“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.
Market18 Dec 2028
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Wanderers has been clear about where Guillermo de los Santos stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Dec 2028
“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.
Loan watch11 Dec 2028
“I did not go to Deportivo Maldonado to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Market11 Dec 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Wanderers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jonathan Urretaviscaya and Wanderers agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market4 Dec 2028
The name of Emiliano Machado has come up in conversations Wanderers were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market4 Dec 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Nicolás Olivera has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Wanderers .
Squad4 Dec 2028
“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.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match27 Nov 2028
Wanderers are in real trouble nowPosition 14, 30 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad27 Nov 2028
“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.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Emmanuel Mas 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.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Nov 2028
“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.
Squad20 Nov 2028
The medical room confirms 103 days on the sidelines for Fabricio Formiliano , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad20 Nov 2028
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Nov 2028
Felipe Serrés : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Nov 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Esteban Crucci and Wanderers agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom13 Nov 2028
Still nobody in the Wanderers dugout
12 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
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Uneasy
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Squad6 Nov 2028
The manager makes an example of Jorge Pedra
“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.
Jorge Pedra The manager makes an example of Jorge Pedra
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom30 Oct 2028
Pressure builds in the Wanderers boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match30 Oct 2028
Wanderers are in real trouble nowPosition 14, 30 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Agustín Buffa : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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Crisis
Squad23 Oct 2028
Darlin Mencia : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Oct 2028
The medical room confirms 135 days on the sidelines for Fabricio Formiliano , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad23 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Freitas
“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.
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Crisis
Squad16 Oct 2028
“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.
Loan watch16 Oct 2028
“I did not go to Deportivo Maldonado to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Squad16 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Olivera
“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.
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Crisis
Squad9 Oct 2028
“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.
Squad9 Oct 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marco Mancebo and Wanderers agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Paulo Lima 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
Pressure builds in the Wanderers boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match2 Oct 2028
Wanderers are in real trouble nowPosition 14, 30 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Lucas Zelaya : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Oct 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marco Mancebo commits to Wanderers for another 4 years.
Squad2 Oct 2028
“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.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
$2.4M taken back off the Wanderers table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Squad2 Oct 2028
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Emmanuel Mas is 39, with 35 appearances behind him, and Wanderers will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
Wanderers were not finished after allWritten off a fortnight ago, the squad has closed ranks and answered on the pitch. Something was said behind that door, and so far it is holding.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Sep 2028
“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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Rodríguez and Wanderers agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch25 Sep 2028
“I did not go to DC United to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 28 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Loan watch18 Sep 2028
“I did not go to Deportivo Maldonado to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Alan García 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.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Joaquín Varela 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 Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Sep 2028
Emmanuel Mas 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
José Alberti 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 Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“I have started watching training differently.” At 38 he has begun the badges, which is how most of the men in the dugout began.
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Uneasy
Match2 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Match4 Sep 2028
Wanderers sink to position 1430 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad4 Sep 2028
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Wanderers
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Emmanuel Mas and Wanderers agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch4 Sep 2028
“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 Wanderers , and 3 appearances in 22 say he has earned the hearing.
Match2 Sep 2028
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Lucas Zelaya 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
José Alberti 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.
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Crisis
Match26 Aug 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Match26 Aug 2028
Fenix left with the points after a 0-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Paulo da Costa
“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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Wanderers pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Loan watch28 Aug 2028
“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 Wanderers , and 4 appearances in 24 say he has earned the hearing.
The terraces28 Aug 2028
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Aug 2028
“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.
Match19 Aug 2028
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
David Texeira David Texeira says Wanderers went back on their word
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Crisis
Market14 Aug 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Aug 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Match12 Aug 2028
Montevideo City Torque left with the points after a 2-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A season average of 7.23 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
The terraces14 Aug 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Crisis
Match5 Aug 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Guillermo de los Santos and Wanderers agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“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.
Match5 Aug 2028
0-1 to Defensor Sporting , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Loan watch7 Aug 2028
“I did not go to Minnesota United FC to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 18 matches say the rest.
Squad7 Aug 2028
One booking too many, and Jonathan Urretaviscaya sits out. Wanderers lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
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Crisis
Match29 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Match29 Jul 2028
1-2 to Nacional , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Emmanuel Mas 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.
Loan watch31 Jul 2028
“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 Wanderers , and 4 appearances in 20 say he has earned the hearing.
Market31 Jul 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Wanderers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad31 Jul 2028
3 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Alan García 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Joaquín Varela wants a proper job in this sideShifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Joaquín Varela has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Wanderers know, and have known for weeks.
Market31 Jul 2028
Still no signature from Paulo Lima
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Wanderers could get for him.
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Crisis
Squad24 Jul 2028
Juan Cekalovich : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match22 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“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.
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Crisis
Match15 Jul 2028
Beaten 0-4 by Cerro , and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match15 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Market17 Jul 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wanderers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 Jul 2028
“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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Martin Aguirre , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
Nobody left the Wanderers dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad17 Jul 2028
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Agustín Buffa knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad17 Jul 2028
José Alberti has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. José Alberti keeps the shirt for now, at Wanderers 's convenience rather than his own.
The terraces17 Jul 2028
Everybody has an opinion about Paulo Lima
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
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Steady
Match8 Jul 2028
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad10 Jul 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Santiago Guzmán commits to Wanderers for another 4 years.
Loan watch10 Jul 2028
“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 Wanderers , and 1 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad10 Jul 2028
A season average of 7.23 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Paulo Lima 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.
Match8 Jul 2028
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Match1 Jul 2028
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Emmanuel Mas 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.
Loan watch3 Jul 2028
“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 Wanderers , and 4 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tomás Hernández commits to Wanderers for another 2 years.
Match1 Jul 2028
A 1-1 draw with Plaza Colonia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market3 Jul 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Wanderers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Gonzalo Freitas 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Guillermo de los Santos is 37, with 7 appearances behind him, and Wanderers will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
The terraces3 Jul 2028
Everybody has an opinion about Agustín Buffa
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
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Steady
Match24 Jun 2028
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market26 Jun 2028
The bid was some way short and Wanderers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad26 Jun 2028
“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.
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Upbeat
Match17 Jun 2028
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match17 Jun 2028
Danubio made Wanderers work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Alan García 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Paulo Lima 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 Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market19 Jun 2028
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Thiago Moreira moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
Market19 Jun 2028
The name of Emiliano Machado keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Wanderers say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad12 Jun 2028
Jorge Pedra : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match10 Jun 2028
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Jorge Pedra Jorge Pedra: that is not what I was promised
Loan watch12 Jun 2028
“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 Wanderers , and 1 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Jun 2028
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Facundo Rossi moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
Market12 Jun 2028
Paulo Lima 's people are making calls“He needs to be playing at a level that matches him, and we are open to conversations.” Nobody says that by accident, and nobody at Wanderers misheard it.
The terraces12 Jun 2028
The press have found their man in Joaquín Zeballos
Column inches are not points, but a footballer whose name keeps appearing for the right reasons is a footballer whose price has just gone up.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Jun 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market5 Jun 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wanderers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match3 Jun 2028
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Loan watch5 Jun 2028
“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 Wanderers , and 4 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Emmanuel Mas 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.
Market5 Jun 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Wanderers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match3 Jun 2028
A 1-1 draw with Penarol leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad5 Jun 2028
The captaincy has been taken off Jonathan Urretaviscaya . Wanderers will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad5 Jun 2028
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
In brief
Market
Still no signature from Paulo Lima
Boardroom
The Wanderers production line keeps running
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Uneasy
Squad29 May 2028
“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.
Match27 May 2028
A 2-0 win over Rampla Juniors , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad29 May 2028
“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.
Mateo Acosta Mateo Acosta says Wanderers went back on their word
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Uneasy
Match20 May 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 May 2028
The cup run ends for Wanderers
1-1 against Racing , and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad22 May 2028
Nicolás Olivera : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad22 May 2028
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Marco Mancebo , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad22 May 2028
Alan García 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.
Match20 May 2028
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Match13 May 2028
8 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 May 2028
Gonzalo Freitas : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 May 2028
“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.
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Uneasy
Match6 May 2028
7 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Market8 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wanderers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Loan watch8 May 2028
“I did not go to Minnesota United FC to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad8 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Pablo Suárez
“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.
Match6 May 2028
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Boston River will be the happier side with the point.
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Crisis
Squad1 May 2028
Alan García : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match29 Apr 2028
6 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Squad1 May 2028
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Guillermo de los Santos , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Alan García Alan García: that is not what I was promised
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Crisis
Match22 Apr 2028
5 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“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.
Match22 Apr 2028
1-2 to Defensor Sporting , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Diogo Cabrera Diogo Cabrera says Wanderers went back on their word
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Steady
Match15 Apr 2028
4 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Match15 Apr 2028
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad17 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Leandro Zazpe
“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.
Match15 Apr 2028
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad17 Apr 2028
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Wanderers have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad17 Apr 2028
At 26 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Wanderers have a decision that made itself.
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Steady
Market10 Apr 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wanderers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match8 Apr 2028
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad10 Apr 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Santiago Guzmán commits to Wanderers for another 3 years.
Squad10 Apr 2028
“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.
Match8 Apr 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Progreso defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market10 Apr 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wanderers know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad3 Apr 2028
The medical room confirms 47 days on the sidelines for Guillermo de los Santos , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad3 Apr 2028
“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.
Match1 Apr 2028
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Squad27 Mar 2028
“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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Emmanuel Mas 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Wanderers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Marco Mancebo Marco Mancebo says Wanderers went back on their word
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Steady
Match15 Mar 2028
Wanderers march on in the cupCerrito are out and Wanderers go through, 2-1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match18 Mar 2028
Three points for Wanderers , 1-0 the final word against Plaza Colonia in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad20 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Alan García
“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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad20 Mar 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Match11 Mar 2028
No end in sight to Wanderers 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.
Market13 Mar 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wanderers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Mar 2028
“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.
Squad13 Mar 2028
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match11 Mar 2028
A 1-1 draw with Cerro Largo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market13 Mar 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wanderers know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad13 Mar 2028
José Alberti has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. José Alberti keeps the shirt for now, at Wanderers 's convenience rather than his own.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Jonathan Urretaviscaya has let it be known that he does not like the way Wanderers are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Market13 Mar 2028
No fee and no drama: Marco Mancebo has signed at Wanderers , and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
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Crisis
Market6 Mar 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad6 Mar 2028
The medical room confirms 79 days on the sidelines for Guillermo de los Santos , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rodrigo Rivero and Wanderers agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Esteban Crucci Wanderers turn down New York Red Bulls for Esteban Crucci
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Uneasy
Squad28 Feb 2028
Paulo da Costa : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market28 Feb 2028
Albirex Niigata are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Wanderers will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Feb 2028
The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Agustín Machado , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Juan Cekalovich
“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.
Match19 Feb 2028
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Penarol came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Market14 Feb 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wanderers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market14 Feb 2028
The shirt still fits. Thiago Rodriguez is back at Wanderers , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market14 Feb 2028
The shirt still fits. Rodrigo Ramirez is back at Wanderers , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market14 Feb 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Match12 Feb 2028
A 1-0 win over Rampla Juniors , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Feb 2028
55 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Felipe Serrés
“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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Jonathan Urretaviscaya has let it be known that he does not like the way Wanderers are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Juan Cekalovich 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.
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Crisis
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Franco Torres has until the next board meetingWhat was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Wanderers can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad7 Feb 2028
110 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Darlin Mencia
“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.
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Crisis
Boardroom31 Jan 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Wanderers
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad31 Jan 2028
“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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Gonzalo Freitas has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Darlin Mencia Darlin Mencia says Wanderers went back on their word
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Crisis
Squad24 Jan 2028
“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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
“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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Jonathan Urretaviscaya plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Crisis
Squad17 Jan 2028
19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad17 Jan 2028
The medical room confirms 88 days on the sidelines for Guillermo Niski , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad17 Jan 2028
“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.
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Crisis
Squad10 Jan 2028
“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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
The medical room confirms 143 days on the sidelines for Guillermo de los Santos , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Esteban Crucci commits to Wanderers for another 4 years.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Franco Torres has until the next board meetingWhat was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Wanderers can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Pressure builds in the Wanderers boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad3 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Juan Cekalovich
“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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
José Alberti 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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
The captaincy has been taken off José Alberti . Wanderers will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Wanderers pull $2.4M back off the tableThe money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad3 Jan 2028
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
Market3 Jan 2028
Wanderers have made Fabián Borges available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
A squad written off a fortnight ago has closed ranks. Whatever was said behind that door, it has held so far.
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Uneasy
Market27 Dec 2027
$810.0K — a new record at Wanderers
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Loan watch27 Dec 2027
“I did not go to Cerro Largo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 22 matches say the rest.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Felipe Serrés
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Dec 2027
The medical room confirms 49 days on the sidelines for Leandro Zazpe , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market20 Dec 2027
Fenix pay $120.0K, 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
120 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Market13 Dec 2027
Roque Ricca 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 Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.
Market13 Dec 2027
Progreso pay $170.0K, 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.
Market13 Dec 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Wanderers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Loan watch13 Dec 2027
“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 Wanderers , and 3 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
Market13 Dec 2027
Experience through the door at Wanderers
Emmanuel Mas arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Squad13 Dec 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
Pressure builds in the Wanderers boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad6 Dec 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Paulo Lima and Wanderers agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
Wanderers pull $2.4M back off the tableThe money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Agustín Buffa 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.
Market6 Dec 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Guillermo Niski may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Joaquín Zeballos has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Loan watch29 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Cerro Largo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 18 matches say the rest.
Squad29 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of David Texeira
“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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
82 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 Nov 2027
The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Rodrigo Rivero , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
David Texeira David Texeira says Wanderers went back on their word
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Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
“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.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
“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 Wanderers , and 3 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Olivera
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Nicolás Olivera 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.
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Uneasy
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Cerro Largo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Jonathan Urretaviscaya . Wanderers will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Federico Bonilla 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.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Oct 2027
116 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Sergi Oriol , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Oct 2027
“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.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
“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 Wanderers , and 3 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of David Texeira
“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.
Mateo Levato Mateo Levato says Wanderers went back on their word
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Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Jorge Pedra
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
David Texeira 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.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Oct 2027
Alan García 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.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Cerro Largo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Squad27 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 56 days on the sidelines for Sergi Oriol , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Alan García 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 Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2027
Felipe Serrés : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Loan watch20 Sep 2027
“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 Wanderers , and 3 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Olivera
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Joaquín Blanco , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Felipe Serrés 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.
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Uneasy
Match4 Sep 2027
5 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Alan García 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.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Cerro Largo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Wanderers and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Match28 Aug 2027
4 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Match28 Aug 2027
0-2 to Plaza Colonia , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 88 days on the sidelines for Sergi Oriol , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Steady
Squad23 Aug 2027
Alan García left out for the big oneA player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Alan García will call it something else in private.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Wanderers lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
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Crisis
Squad16 Aug 2027
Alan García : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match14 Aug 2027
Danubio left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Aug 2027
53 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Alan García Alan García: that is not what I was promised
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Steady
Market9 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Nicolás Olivera : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 41 days on the sidelines for Lucas Zelaya , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match7 Aug 2027
0-1 to Liverpool Montevideo , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paulo Lima commits to Wanderers for another 1 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
4 goals and a season average of 7.29. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Upbeat
Match28 Jul 2027
Wanderers bow out of the cupDefensor Sporting go through and Wanderers go home, 0-0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Agustín Buffa : 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad2 Aug 2027
117 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match31 Jul 2027
Penarol made Wanderers work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Mateo Levato
“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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 34 with 5 appearances behind him, and Wanderers have to plan for both answers.
Loan watch2 Aug 2027
“I am playing every week here and I feel like a footballer again.” 24 appearances and 0 goals on loan, and a decision waiting in the summer.
Market2 Aug 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Guillermo Niski may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market2 Aug 2027
Wanderers spent the window trying to move Nicolás Queiroz on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Upbeat
Market26 Jul 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Enzo Meirelles reports back to Wanderers with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match24 Jul 2027
Cerro made Wanderers work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Olivera
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Felipe Serrés 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 Wanderers , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Rodrigo Rivero unhappy with how he is being usedAsked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Rodrigo Rivero has let it be known that he does not like the way Wanderers are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Loan watch26 Jul 2027
22 starts and an average of 7.02. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
Squad26 Jul 2027
At 21 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Wanderers have a decision that made itself.
Market26 Jul 2027
The window shut and Santiago Benítez is still in the building
Wanderers spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
The terraces26 Jul 2027
Column inches are not points, but a footballer whose name keeps appearing for the right reasons is a footballer whose price has just gone up.
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Crisis
Match17 Jul 2027
1-2 to Racing , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mateo Martínez commits to Wanderers for another 4 years.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Alan García
“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.
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Steady
Squad12 Jul 2027
Agustín Buffa : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Jul 2027
River Plate come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Wanderers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match10 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“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.
Match10 Jul 2027
Miramar Misiones made Wanderers work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A season average of 7.28 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Uneasy
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.
Match3 Jul 2027
A 2-1 win over Cerrito , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market5 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Wanderers have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market5 Jul 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Wanderers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Paulo Lima 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
3 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Every debut is a small story about the future: Martín Bertola , 21 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Juan Cekalovich wants a proper job in this sideShifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Juan Cekalovich has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Wanderers know, and have known for weeks.
Market5 Jul 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Guillermo Niski may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Match26 Jun 2027
11 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2027
David Texeira : 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“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.
Match26 Jun 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Every debut is a small story about the future: Federico Bonilla , 21 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Uneasy
Match19 Jun 2027
10 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“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.
José Río José Río keeps Wanderers in it on his own
Squad21 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for José Río , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Santiago Guzmán commits to Wanderers for another 4 years.
Match19 Jun 2027
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Match12 Jun 2027
9 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Jun 2027
Cruzeiro come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Wanderers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market14 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Wanderers have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match12 Jun 2027
A 2-2 draw with Nacional leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Felipe Serrés
“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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Match5 Jun 2027
8 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Wanderers have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Jun 2027
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match5 Jun 2027
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Diogo Cabrera
“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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Wanderers will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Crisis
Match29 May 2027
7 matches without a win for Wanderers
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Wanderers are no longer polite ones.
Match29 May 2027
Juventud left with the points after a 1-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 May 2027
“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.