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Uneasy
Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
Market25 Oct 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atlanta they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Eugenio Olivera 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.
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Uneasy
Market4 Oct 2027
David Bramajo 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 Atlanta can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alejandro Quintana commits to Atlanta for another 2 years.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
144% of the income goes out in wages at Atlanta
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Uneasy
Match4 Sep 2027
7 matches without a win for Atlanta
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Atlanta are no longer polite ones.
Market6 Sep 2027
Nicolás Mosca 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 Atlanta can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Sep 2027
There were 6 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.
Squad6 Sep 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Wages eat 135% of everything Atlanta 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Braian Rivero will call it something else in private.
Match4 Sep 2027
A 1-1 draw with Gimnasia y Tiro leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Leonel Galeano 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.
The terraces6 Sep 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market16 Aug 2027
“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.
Match14 Aug 2027
4 matches without a win for Atlanta
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Atlanta are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
A 1-1 draw with Ferro Carril Oeste leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Atlanta counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Atlanta now.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“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.
Market16 Aug 2027
The name of Federico Bisanz keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Atlanta say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad16 Aug 2027
At 22 years old, Ignacio Della Vedova became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Crisis
Market9 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad9 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
Wages eat 125% of everything Atlanta 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Juan Francisco Rago knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Market9 Aug 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Uneasy
Match13 Mar 2027
5 matches without a win for Atlanta
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Atlanta are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Mauricio Chanampa, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Mosca
“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.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Mosca
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Braian Rivero 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.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlanta can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tomás Rojas and Atlanta agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
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.
Squad2 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 668% of everything Atlanta 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.
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Steady
Squad26 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolás Mosca and Atlanta agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market26 Oct 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Atlanta money.