The Almirante Brown Gazette
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Almirante Brown
Facundo Quignón 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Leonardo Jara 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 211% of the Almirante Brown 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Máximo Levi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máximo Levi, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The armband comes off Franco Almanza
Almirante Brown 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
No place for Ariel Imperial in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ariel Imperial has his answer from Almirante Brown; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Enzo Cardozo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Almirante Brown 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
The Gonzalo Flores talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Almirante Brown know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Franco Almanza 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 Almirante Brown, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Fabián Báez in it
- Squad Santiago Villalba finally belongs at Almirante Brown
- The dugout Facundo Quignón keeps his manager's vote