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Crisis
Match8 Sep 2027
River Plate ended it 0-1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A one-man rearguard from Facundo Vila
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“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.
Market13 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 Estudiantes can pretend not to have heard.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 28 days on the sidelines for Franco Quinteros , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Alvarado to sit and watch. I want to come back to Estudiantes and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 38 matches say the rest.
Squad13 Sep 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
Estudiantes have made Rafael Porfírio available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Crisis
Match23 Aug 2027
30 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market23 Aug 2027
Tomás Núñez has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Estudiantes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Facundo Vila Facundo Vila keeps Estudiantes in it on his own
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Estudiantes 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Estudiantes has to find a result from somewhere.
Market23 Aug 2027
Umraniyespor pay $1.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad23 Aug 2027
45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Loan watch23 Aug 2027
17 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Match21 Aug 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad23 Aug 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.
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Uneasy
Match31 May 2027
Estudiantes are in real trouble nowPosition 16, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match29 May 2027
No end in sight to Estudiantes 's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Estudiantes has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad31 May 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.
Squad31 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Estudiantes , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Match29 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. San Telmo came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market31 May 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ezequiel Almirón may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Market3 May 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 Estudiantes can pretend not to have heard.
Match3 May 2027
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match1 May 2027
Chacarita Juniors left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Campisi
“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.
Market3 May 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Rafael Porfírio may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market3 May 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
“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.
Match27 Mar 2027
5 matches without a win for Estudiantes
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Estudiantes are no longer polite ones.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Fernando Duré
“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.
Jorge Correa Jorge Correa says Estudiantes went back on their word
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
0-2 to Mitre , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Enzo Acosta
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Alex Costa Palomo , 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Enzo Acosta The manager makes an example of Enzo Acosta
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 2-1 win over Almirante Brown , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 570% of everything Estudiantes 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Estudiantes 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.