From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match13 Sep 2027
26 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market13 Sep 2027
Iván Ramírez 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 San Miguel can pretend not to have heard.
Match11 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten San Miguel
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Bruno Nasta
“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.
Match11 Sep 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Maipú will be the happier side with the point.
Market13 Sep 2027
“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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Crisis
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Pressure builds in the San Miguel boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market6 Sep 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 San Miguel can pretend not to have heard.
Match4 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten San Miguel
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad6 Sep 2027
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Damián Adín
“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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Wages eat 133% of everything San Miguel earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Juan Manuel Lungarzo will call it something else in private.
Match4 Sep 2027
A 2-2 draw with Güemes leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Match17 Apr 2027
No end in sight to San Miguel's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Miguel has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Felipe Coronel: 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.” San Miguel have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
165% of the income goes out in wages at San Miguel
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Dixon Rentería
“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.
Match17 Apr 2027
A 1-1 draw with Almagro leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad19 Apr 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Match20 Mar 2027
No end in sight to San Miguel's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Miguel has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Wages eat 188% of everything San Miguel earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad22 Mar 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.