The Racing Courier
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Santiago Lallana keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Racing
Pablo Chavarría 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 153% of everything Racing 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Gabriel Aranda gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Sergio González 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Racing lose Fernando Rodríguez
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Sergio González 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Catriel Peña told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Catriel Peña has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Racing.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Raúl Chamorro: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Racing will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
In brief
- Market The Gonzalo Rostagno question follows Racing around
- The dugout The manager comes out for Martín Albarracín