The Racing Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Facundo Taborda asks to leave Racing
“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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Axel Oyola runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alejandro Rébola in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Rostagno signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gonzalo Rostagno commits to Racing for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Matías Machado
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Machado, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Abel Bustos
Still no offer on the table, and Abel Bustos’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Match8 Aug 2026
Facundo Taborda rescues a point for Racing
It needed Facundo Taborda to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Arsenal, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alan Olinick 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Facundo Taborda changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Racing had a different afternoon.
In brief
- Market Racing and Agustín Ortíz are talking past each other
- Market The shop window has Guido Pache in it