Marked for Ulises Sánchez
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market28 Dec 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Gimnasia y Esgrima have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Luciano Cingolani has agreed terms with Aldosivi for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market28 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gimnasia y Esgrima they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia y Esgrima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ulises Sánchez 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Alvarado are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Gimnasia y Esgrima will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Brian Andrada
“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 dugout28 Dec 2026
Matías Muñoz knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Matías Muñoz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gimnasia y Esgrima lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Almirante Brown waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Defensores Unidos had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market21 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gimnasia y Esgrima they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ezequiel Muñoz 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulises Sánchez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market21 Dec 2026
The name of Santiago Roggero has come up in conversations Gimnasia y Esgrima were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Imanol González
“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.
In brief
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The dugout
Julián Moya has become a man the manager trusts
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The dugout
Felipe San Juan knocks on the manager’s door
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Squad
Questions about Juampi on the training pitch
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
Mario Gutiérrez damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market14 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market14 Dec 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Gimnasia y Esgrima have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gimnasia y Esgrima may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market14 Dec 2026
Agustín Módica has left for Estudiantes in a $1.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Ulises Sánchez 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Muñoz 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The name of Nicolás Romano has come up in conversations Gimnasia y Esgrima were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lautaro Carrera, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
Mario Gutiérrez damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Gimnasia y Esgrima people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ulises Sánchez 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tomás Ortíz 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ismael Cortez has his answer from Gimnasia y Esgrima; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Maximiliano Padilla has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Gimnasia y Esgrima have made the call to Boca Juniors. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Ismael Cortez gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ismael Cortez is on it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market30 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gimnasia y Esgrima, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ulises Sánchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Tomás O'Connor
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tobías Cervera 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lautaro Petruchi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Franco Saavedra has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ulises Sánchez 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
Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Muñoz 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
Agustín Módica is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Gimnasia y Esgrima has been clear about where Agustín Módica stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Franco Saavedra
“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
Tomás O'Connor 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Lautaro Petruchi signs something — a contract at Gimnasia y Esgrima or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Julián Moya has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima 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
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Gimnasia y Esgrima. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
Supporters make their feelings known about Tobías Cervera
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Gimnasia y Esgrima would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ezequiel Muñoz 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ulises Sánchez 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Muñoz, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Agustín Módica 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 Gimnasia y Esgrima, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market16 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gimnasia y Esgrima know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match7 Nov 2026
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia y Esgrima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tobías Cervera 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Santiago Rodríguez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Juan Otero kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Matías Muñoz 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tobías Cervera. 2‑1 against San Lorenzo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout2 Nov 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order Gimnasia y Esgrima prefer.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia y Esgrima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match24 Oct 2026
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 ratings26 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.78, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia y Esgrima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezequiel Muñoz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Juan Otero: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market19 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gimnasia y Esgrima, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ulises Sánchez 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezequiel Muñoz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Both jobs done by Tomás Ortíz — 6.74
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.74, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Brian Andrada
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
The knee: Juan Franco out for 26 days
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gimnasia y Esgrima lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market14 Sep 2026
Diego Mondino 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 Gimnasia y Esgrima can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Gimnasia y Esgrima are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ulises Sánchez 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Matías Muñoz 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Ángel Rojas has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juampi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Lanús, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
The knee: Juan Franco out for 33 days
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gimnasia y Esgrima lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Gimnasia y Esgrima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tomás O'Connor 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ulises Sánchez 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.
The dugout7 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Ismael Cortez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gimnasia y Esgrima, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Ezequiel Muñoz’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Gimnasia y Esgrima needing him to play as if none of it matters.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Defensa y Justicia, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Carrarese had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ezequiel Muñoz 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Julián Moya has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Agustín Módica
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Pescara for Agustín Módica 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ezequiel Muñoz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
Instituto left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Tomás O'Connor
“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 dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Juan Otero left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobías Cervera 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Agustín Módica
Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Matías Vargas has left for Espanyol in a $13.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Matías Vargas was one of the reasons people came, and $13.5M does not replace that by itself.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Hapoel Kiryat Shmona for Ángel Castañares 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ulises Sánchez and Gimnasia y Esgrima agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ezequiel Muñoz 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Gimnasia y Esgrima have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Domínguez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matías Muñoz 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad3 Aug 2026
97 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Gimnasia y Esgrima know what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Espanyol have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Matías Vargas. The answer from Gimnasia y Esgrima has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
Valletta come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Gimnasia y Esgrima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
Matías Vargas wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Gimnasia y Esgrima hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías Vargas and Gimnasia y Esgrima agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia y Esgrima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
Tomás Ortíz scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Boca Juniors, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.