Marked for David
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Aug 2028
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.
Market14 Aug 2028
“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.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad14 Aug 2028
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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Matías Bazzi 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonel Barrios, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Agropecuario Argentino defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Marked 5.67, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Steady
Squad15 May 2028
A fracture rules Leonel Barrios out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Talleres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market15 May 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Talleres can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 May 2028
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.
Boardroom15 May 2028
Talleres counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Talleres now.
Squad15 May 2028
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.
Match13 May 2028
Chaco For Ever made Talleres work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad15 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Versaci, and the manager let it.
Player ratings15 May 2028
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The terraces15 May 2028
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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Crisis
Squad10 Apr 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Vélez
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Talleres lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Apr 2028
A fracture rules Leonel Barrios out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Talleres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces10 Apr 2028
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 11 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market10 Apr 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Talleres can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Apr 2028
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.
Match8 Apr 2028
1‑2 to Almirante Brown, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Apr 2028
“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 Apr 2028
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Talleres, and it is a cruel one.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
4.70. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
Matías Bazzi breaks a bone — 66 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 66 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Lautaro Bursich: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Talleres have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Rodrigo Vélez 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.
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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Aug 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Nicolás Malvacio 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Talleres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Orofino 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Milton Cantero’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Talleres.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Milton Cantero 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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Matías Romano
“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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Uneasy
Market28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Mauro Casoli for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Talleres will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad28 Dec 2026
David signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David commits to Talleres for another 2 years.
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 Talleres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 164% of everything Talleres 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.