The Deportivo Riestra Courier
Market23 Nov 2026
Mariano Bracamonte is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportivo Riestra is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Deportivo Riestra
Cristian Paz 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Nicolás Sansotre pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Deportivo Riestra
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriel Obredor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ángel Stringa
“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 dugout23 Nov 2026
Thiago Romero has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Riestra 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes Nicolás Caro Torres a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Deportivo Riestra. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clock does Mauro Smarra’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Deportivo Riestra could ask drops and the wages Mauro Smarra can ask rise.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Marino Arzamendia 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 Deportivo Riestra, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market The Mauro Smarra talk will not go away
- Squad Setback for Pablo Monje
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Gustavo Fernández at San Miguel