Marked for Leandro Paredes
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Match21 Dec 2026
Boca Juniors are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 29 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Boca Juniors have had the benefit of it.
Market21 Dec 2026
Huachipato come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Boca Juniors did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market21 Dec 2026
Miguel Ventos has left for Godoy Cruz in a $1.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Leandro Paredes was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Lautaro Blanco 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Morón will make the call about Matías Fuentes this week. Boca Juniors have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Agustín Marchesín has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Boca Juniors will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market21 Dec 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lucas Janson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Boca Juniors.
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Market14 Dec 2026
The offer from Gimnasia y Esgrima for Joaquín Piñeyro was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad14 Dec 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 Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Carlos Palacios 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.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Rodrigo Battaglia has his answer from Boca Juniors; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Squad7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Boca Juniors may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market7 Dec 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Boca Juniors is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Javier García has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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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Squad30 Nov 2026
Marco Pellegrino: 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.” Boca Juniors have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Boca Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Blanco 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.
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Match23 Nov 2026
Boca Juniors are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 29 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
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Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Merentiel
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Boca Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Gadiel Paoli out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boca Juniors will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Merentiel
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Boca Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Gadiel Paoli out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boca Juniors will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
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Squad2 Nov 2026
Miguel Merentiel damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Gadiel Paoli out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boca Juniors will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Gonzalo Gelini is the division's best young player this month
At 19 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Boca Juniors will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
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Triumph
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Merentiel
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Boca Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Oct 2026
29 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Gadiel Paoli breaks a bone — 42 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Boca Juniors have 5 straight wins of it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
4 on the bounce on the road for Boca Juniors. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Oct 2026
Estudiantes made Boca Juniors work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Triumph
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Merentiel
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Boca Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Gadiel Paoli breaks a bone — 51 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Oct 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Boca Juniors have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad19 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 Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 2‑0 win over Independiente, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match17 Oct 2026
The run at home goes on for Boca Juniors
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Boca Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Pellegrino 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.26 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Carlos Palacios was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Triumph
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Merentiel
56 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Boca Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Oct 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.06 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Gadiel Paoli out for 59 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boca Juniors will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Boca Juniors right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
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Squad5 Oct 2026
Miguel Merentiel damages knee ligaments — 64 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 64 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Gadiel Paoli breaks a bone — 69 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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.
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 Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Adam Bareiro. 3‑2 against Newell's Old Boys, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.50, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Kevin Zenón was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.11. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Boca Juniors had a different afternoon.
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Squad28 Sep 2026
Miguel Merentiel damages knee ligaments — 73 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 73 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match28 Sep 2026
Boca Juniors are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 17 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Milton Giménez takes the afternoon — 8.95
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Milton Giménez provided it, and the 8.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Gadiel Paoli out for 77 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boca Juniors will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Milton Giménez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Boca Juniors.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alan Velasco, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 4.62. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Miguel Merentiel damages knee ligaments — 82 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 82 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Gadiel Paoli breaks a bone — 85 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Sep 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 Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
7.87, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Boca Juniors had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with San Lorenzo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
The goals keep arriving from Gonzalo Maroni’s exile
2 goals in 8 games at Barracas Central — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Boca Juniors updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Market21 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Alexander Fernández leaves Boca Juniors the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Merentiel
92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Boca Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Exequiel Zeballos takes the afternoon — 8.42
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Exequiel Zeballos provided it, and the 8.42 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Exequiel Zeballos’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Boca Juniors.
Match12 Sep 2026
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Exequiel Zeballos in the middle of it, and Vélez unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Malcom Braida 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
The goals keep arriving from Brian Aguirre’s exile
4 goals in 6 games at Estudiantes — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Boca Juniors updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Squad7 Sep 2026
Miguel Merentiel damages knee ligaments — 102 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 102 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad7 Sep 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 Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Carlos Palacios’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Boca Juniors.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Boca Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Pellegrino 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Miguel Merentiel damages knee ligaments — 111 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 111 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Aug 2026
Ferro Carril Oeste ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Elche for Camilo Salamanca was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Sebastián Villa
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Instituto, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Boca Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Palacios 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Triumph
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Merentiel
121 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Boca Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match22 Aug 2026
5‑1, and Adam Bareiro took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Boca Juniors tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Match19 Aug 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Central Norte will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Kevin Zenón takes the afternoon — 8.41
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kevin Zenón provided it, and the 8.41 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Adam Bareiro takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Adam Bareiro among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Adam Bareiro on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Boca Juniors and Talleres.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.68, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Merentiel
130 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Boca Juniors lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
Iker Zufiaurre has left for Betis in a $3.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Emirates Club for Lautaro Di Lollo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Defensa y Justicia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Lautaro Blanco 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Boca Juniors 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.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Aug 2026
Miguel Merentiel damages knee ligaments — 139 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 139 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match8 Aug 2026
There were 89 minutes on the clock and Deportivo Riestra had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Boca Juniors did not stop to explain themselves.
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
“The easiest signature of my career.” Leandro Paredes and Boca Juniors agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Boca Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Ascacíbar 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Joaquín Piñeyro. 2‑1 against Deportivo Riestra, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Sebastián Villa’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Agustín Martegani has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Boca Juniors.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Boca Juniors did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
293 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Boca Juniors know what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Boca Juniors heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Agustín Marchesín and Boca Juniors agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Iker Zufiaurre has come up in conversations Boca Juniors were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Kevin Zenón was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.