Marked for Eugenio Olivera
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Zach Clough 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Lachlan Rose 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Newcastle Jets has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Back issues
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Uneasy
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Talleres sell a favourite for $230.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Eugenio Olivera was one of the reasons people came, and $230.0K does not replace that by itself.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Federico Versaci 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
Newcastle Jets paid $230.0K and Talleres took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad10 Aug 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Federico Versaci’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lautaro César has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Talleres.
Match8 Aug 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Morón defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 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 Talleres, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
201 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
Molodechno come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Talleres did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Newcastle Jets have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Eugenio Olivera. The answer from Talleres has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abel Masuero and Talleres agree another 2 years.
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 Talleres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Abel Masuero 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mauro Casoli has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Talleres.