Marked for Iván Suárez
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Squad1 Nov 2027
135 days out for José Alberti after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Wanderers will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The knee: Iván Suárez out for 19 days
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Wanderers lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Wanderers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market1 Nov 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santiago Guzmán will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Wanderers the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Nov 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Wanderers
Augusto Lotti 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 dugout1 Nov 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Wanderers 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.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“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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Match23 Oct 2027
Still nobody has beaten Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 33. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A fracture rules José Alberti out for 142 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Wanderers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match23 Oct 2027
Wanderers do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Wanderers came through the finding-out well against Olimpia.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Iván Suárez damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
Match25 Oct 2027
First, on 77 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Augusto Lotti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Oct 2027
14 goals and a season average of 7.28. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match23 Oct 2027
The run is over for Wanderers
5 matches without defeat, and then Olimpia. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Squad18 Oct 2027
A fracture rules José Alberti out for 150 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Wanderers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Iván Suárez damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
“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 Wanderers, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad18 Oct 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“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 dugout18 Oct 2027
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 Nahuel Furtado is on it.
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Market11 Oct 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Augusto Lotti 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
José Alberti 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
When it matters, Jonás Luna plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Centeno, and the manager let it.
Market11 Oct 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Luciano Cosentino signs something — a contract at Wanderers or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Wanderers. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Iván Suárez 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
The training reports on Santiago Benítez are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
In brief
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Squad
Augusto Lotti is training like a man with a point to make
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Boardroom
The Wanderers production line keeps running
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Boardroom
The Wanderers board put their names to it
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The dugout4 Jan 2027
Gonzalo Freitas: 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market4 Jan 2027
Cerro Largo come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Wanderers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Wanderers have done the hard part with Belgrano, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad4 Jan 2027
José Alberti 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Facundo Labandeira 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Santiago Guzmán and Wanderers agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Joaquín Zeballos 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.
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Boardroom14 Dec 2026
Wanderers book their European place
Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Mauricio Gómez: 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.” Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
José Alberti 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 Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Wanderers
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Labandeira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Iván Suárez commits to Wanderers for another 2 years.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A loan move for Augusto Lotti is in the works
Wanderers have made the call to Platense. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Gimnasia La Plata: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Newell's Old Boys: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.