Marked for Ignacio Colombini
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Federico Versaci 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Talleres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Bazzi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eugenio Olivera, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Leonel Barrios 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 Talleres, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Talleres know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Leonel Barrios out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Talleres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A muscle injury and 17 days out for Ignacio Colombini
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Talleres will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad5 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 Talleres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matías Samaniego and Talleres agree another 4 years.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 214% of the Talleres income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Abel Masuero 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 Abel Masuero trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lautaro Bursich is on it.
Market5 Oct 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Talleres could get for him.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Sep 2026
“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.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Talleres is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.15 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mauro Casoli has agreed terms with Newell's Old Boys for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Federico Versaci 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Bazzi, and the manager let it.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Daniel Molina was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Talleres dressing room was either.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
37 days out for Leonel Barrios after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Talleres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Estudiantes will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Talleres were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.70, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match19 Sep 2026
The drought breaks for Talleres
9 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Estudiantes were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.79, and 2 involvements.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Talleres
Rodrigo Vélez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match19 Sep 2026
Talleres settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Estudiantes spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Talleres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eugenio Olivera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
3 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Talleres's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Talleres has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Talleres
Federico Versaci and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Lautaro Bursich again, and this time the name on the line is Polokwane City. Talleres are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matías Bazzi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match19 Aug 2026
Talleres caught on 118 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Independiente scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Federico Versaci 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pedro Moretti has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mateo Quiroga has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Martín Álvarez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Talleres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eugenio Olivera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Talleres are still strangers to each other
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Federico Ulayar
“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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Daniel Molina was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Talleres dressing room was either.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 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 Talleres, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
201 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Talleres know exactly what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ignacio Colombini commits to Talleres for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Talleres
Ignacio Colombini and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match1 Aug 2026
Godoy Cruz left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Abel Masuero falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Daniel Molina after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.