The Gimnasia y Esgrima Sentinel
Market1 Feb 2027
Juan Franco 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 Gimnasia y Esgrima can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2027
Dorados come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Gimnasia y Esgrima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ulises Sánchez in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia y Esgrima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Gimnasia y Esgrima
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Mondino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Matías Vargas 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Lautaro Petruchi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Brian Andrada 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Julián Moya told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Julián Moya has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Gimnasia y Esgrima.
Looking ahead1 Feb 2027
Ezequiel Muñoz faces his old club
Lanús next, and one man in the Gimnasia y Esgrima dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- Market The Lautaro Petruchi talk will not go away
- Squad José Luis Morales still has not settled
- The dugout A door opens for Felipe San Juan