Marked for Nicolás Sánchez
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gimnasia La Plata may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market7 Jun 2027
The bid was some way short and Gimnasia La Plata did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Jun 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Gimnasia La Plata, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. River Plate have kept their man, and Gimnasia La Plata go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Gonzalo Errecalde 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.
The dugout7 Jun 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Gimnasia La Plata will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Gimnasia La Plata, and 0 appearances in 22 say he has earned the hearing.
Back issues
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Steady
Match13 Mar 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Gimnasia La Plata did not have in the autumn.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Matías Melluso out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gimnasia La Plata will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Agustín Colazo: 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.” Gimnasia La Plata have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market15 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gimnasia La Plata can pretend not to have heard.
Market15 Mar 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Gimnasia La Plata have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match13 Mar 2027
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Manuel Panaro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Estudiantes to sit and watch. I want to come back to Gimnasia La Plata and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad15 Feb 2027
88 days out for Matías Melluso after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gimnasia La Plata will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match13 Feb 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market15 Feb 2027
Astana come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Gimnasia La Plata did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia La Plata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Augusto Max
“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.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I watch every Gimnasia La Plata game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Estudiantes runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad15 Feb 2027
6 new faces, and Gimnasia La Plata are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Gaitán
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnasia La Plata lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match16 Nov 2026
Position 2 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market16 Nov 2026
Matías Melluso has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gimnasia La Plata they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Johan Carbonero and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Renzo Giampaoli
“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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Marcelo Torres knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gimnasia La Plata, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Gaitán
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnasia La Plata lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market26 Oct 2026
Marcelo Torres has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gimnasia La Plata they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gimnasia La Plata may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match24 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Gimnasia La Plata did not have in the autumn.
Squad26 Oct 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 Gimnasia La Plata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.36 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Gimnasia La Plata had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Gimnasia La Plata told Germán Conti something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.