The Newell's Old Boys Herald
Squad4 Jan 2027
Michael Hoyos is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Newell's Old Boys will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Williams Barlasina: 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.” Newell's Old Boys have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Armando Méndez out for 21 days
The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Armando Méndez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gabriel Arias 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 Newell's Old Boys this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market4 Jan 2027
Newell's Old Boys sign Luciano Ortega with one eye on the future
Nobody at the club will say out loud who this signing is for, which is how you know exactly who it is for. Luciano Ortega has been brought in to take a shirt somebody is still wearing.
Market4 Jan 2027
Borussia Dortmund join the queue for Valentino Acuña
Add another name to the list: Borussia Dortmund have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Valentino Acuña. The answer from Newell's Old Boys has not changed — yet.
In brief
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Luciano Ortega
- Market Mathías de Ritis arrives on loan
- Market David Sotelo placed on the list