David Sotelo

Defensive Midfielder - Vélez
19 Feb 2027
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Marked for David Sotelo

23 Edition

The Newell's Old Boys Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Jan 2027

Gino Podestá breaks a bone — 33 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Ignacio Ramírez honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Newell's Old Boys had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Too dear: Newell's Old Boys walk away from Williams Alarcón

$4.1M was the most the club would pay and Boca Juniors were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Newell's Old Boys rebuffed over Moisés Ramírez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kifisia have kept their man, and Newell's Old Boys go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market4 Jan 2027

Polokwane City come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Newell's Old Boys did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom4 Jan 2027

David Sotelo signs for Vélez while still at Newell's Old Boys

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. David Sotelo has agreed terms with Vélez for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market4 Jan 2027

Newell's Old Boys sign Diego Pavia for $220.0K

The paperwork is done: Diego Pavia joins from Barracas Central in a deal worth $220.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Real improvement from Diego Pavia at Newell's Old Boys

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Diego Pavia is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Julián Contrera stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Julián Contrera and Newell's Old Boys agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Vélez Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces4 Jan 2027

Supporters organise against the Vélez board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market4 Jan 2027

Jano Gordon 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 Vélez can pretend not to have heard.

Market4 Jan 2027

Alex Verón has said yes to Rayo Zuliano

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Vélez have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad4 Jan 2027

A move Luciano Cingolani would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Luciano Cingolani is living that version at Vélez, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market4 Jan 2027

Jaguares come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Vélez did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Tomás Marchiori 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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad4 Jan 2027

The step up is real for Bautista Rámirez

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Vélez baulk at the price for Angelo Marchese

Tigre wanted more than $100.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Boardroom4 Jan 2027

Vélez beat the market to David Sotelo from Newell's Old Boys

Newell's Old Boys will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. David Sotelo has pre-agreed a move to Vélez, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

In brief

22 Edition

The Newell's Old Boys Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Dec 2026

Gino Podestá breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market28 Dec 2026

Martín Luciano agrees terms with Palestino

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Newell's Old Boys people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets28 Dec 2026

An offer of $4.1M for Williams Alarcón

Newell's Old Boys have gone to Boca Juniors with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market28 Dec 2026

David Sotelo puts it in writing

“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 Newell's Old Boys, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets28 Dec 2026

Newell's Old Boys rebuffed over Caíque França

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Guarani have kept their man, and Newell's Old Boys go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom28 Dec 2026

Newell's Old Boys go back to the board over Williams Alarcón

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.5M — a club that wants Williams Alarcón enough to be asked twice.

Market28 Dec 2026

Only the photograph left for David Sotelo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. David Sotelo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Newell's Old Boys the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market28 Dec 2026

Nicolás Bolcato is a Newell's Old Boys player

The fee is $290.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Independiente Rivadavia drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at Newell's Old Boys

Ignacio Ramírez 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.

In brief

20 Edition

The Newell's Old Boys Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Dec 2026

Terms done: Martín Luciano is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Union La Calera waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Newell's Old Boys is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

An offer of $6.8M for Óscar

Newell's Old Boys have gone to Al-Diriyah with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

An offer of $4.9M for Lucas Arcanjo

Newell's Old Boys have gone to Vitória with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

Newell's Old Boys baulk at the price for Iñaki Peña

Panathinaikos wanted more than $4.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

Marco Pellegrino is a medical away from Newell's Old Boys

The deal with Boca Juniors is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market14 Dec 2026

Newell's Old Boys get their man

The chase for Lucas Escobar ended with $78.0K changing hands and Ferrocarril Midland out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Ian Glavinovich

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ian Glavinovich, and the manager let it.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Newell's Old Boys

Emilio Zelaya 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.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Matías Cóccaro 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 Cóccaro trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief