From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Nov 2027
“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.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Wages eat 127% of everything Atlanta 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Braian Rivero 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.
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Uneasy
Market4 Oct 2027
David Bramajo 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 Atlanta can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alejandro Quintana commits to Atlanta for another 2 years.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
144% of the income goes out in wages at Atlanta
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match28 Aug 2027
6 matches without a win for Atlanta
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Atlanta are no longer polite ones.
Market30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atlanta they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market30 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Atlanta have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match28 Aug 2027
A 2-2 draw with Arsenal leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
5 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Uneasy
Market2 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Gustavo Mendoza: 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.” Atlanta have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atlanta they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Braian Rivero
“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.
Market2 Aug 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad2 Aug 2027
One booking too many, and Tomás Castro Ponce sits out. Atlanta lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
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Upbeat
Match21 Apr 2027
Atlanta through in the cup
A 3-0 win over Talleres, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market26 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad26 Apr 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match24 Apr 2027
All Boys made Atlanta work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“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.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
Atlanta counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Atlanta now.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Every debut is a small story about the future: David Bramajo, 21 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Market26 Apr 2027
The name of Federico Bisanz keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Atlanta say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Federico Bisanz
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Bramajo commits to Atlanta for another 5 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Leonel Galeano 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.