Malcom Braida

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7 Dec 2028
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Process

Marked for Malcom Braida

81 Edition

The Boca Juniors Courier

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Enner Valencia breaks a bone — 41 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Boca Juniors run riot against Gimnasia y Esgrima

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Endrick, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.30

A mark of 8.30 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Adam Bareiro says Boca Juniors went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Sagan Tosu come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Boca Juniors did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

Nobody wants to play Boca Juniors right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Boardroom

Boca Juniors to lose Fernando Evangelista for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Fernando Evangelista has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Endrick 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 Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Federico Carrizo is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Boca Juniors is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

In brief

Back issues
80 Edition

The Boca Juniors Courier

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Enner Valencia breaks a bone — 50 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Agustín Marchesín keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Boca Juniors may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Only the photograph left for Sergio Araujo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sergio Araujo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Boca Juniors the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Cristian Iglesias signs on for the long haul

Boca Juniors moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Cristian Iglesias, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Boardroom

Boca Juniors to lose Sergio Araujo for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Sergio Araujo has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Tempers go at Boca Juniors

Endrick 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.

Market

Eyes on Malcom Braida again

The phone has started ringing about Malcom Braida again, and this time the name on the line is Sagan Tosu. Boca Juniors are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Ismaël Bennacer 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Boca Juniors

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

In brief

77 Edition

The Boca Juniors Courier

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Enner Valencia breaks a bone — 75 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 75 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Leandro Paredes says Boca Juniors went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Boca Juniors say no — this time

The offer from Al-Riyadh for Ángel Romero was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Endrick 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 Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Shonan Bellmare watching Sebastián Villa

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Boca Juniors have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at Boca Juniors training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ismaël Bennacer 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.

In brief