The Vélez Gazette
Squad25 Jan 2027
The knee: Gerónimo Poblete out for 107 days
107 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Vélez lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market25 Jan 2027
Bidvest Wits join the queue for Jano Gordon
Add another name to the list: Bidvest Wits have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jano Gordon. The answer from Vélez has not changed — yet.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Vélez
Alex Verón and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tomás Nosei signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tomás Nosei commits to Vélez for another 5 years.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabricio Corbalán 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
Tomás Nosei 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.
In brief
- The dugout Lisandro Magallán gets picked when it counts
- The dugout The manager makes Andrés Desábato a promise
- Market The Dilan Godoy story refuses to die
- The dugout Lucas Robertone knocks on the manager's door