Marked for Jerónimo Russo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Newell's Old Boys can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
The deal with Colón 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Newell's Old Boys may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Newell's Old Boys have gone to Talleres 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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $763.8K — a club that wants Cristian Ludueña enough to be asked twice.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Germán Pezzella 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.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
The offer went to Banfield this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Newell's Old Boys training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Solari is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“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.
Back issues
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Squad9 Nov 2026
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Newell's Old Boys lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Germán Pezzella 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Santiago Solari falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Argentinos Juniors will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Luciano Sánchez has pre-agreed a move to Newell's Old Boys, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Cóccaro, and the manager let it.
Market9 Nov 2026
Jerónimo Russo is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Newell's Old Boys has been clear about where Jerónimo Russo stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Walter Núñez 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 Newell's Old Boys, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout9 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Newell's Old Boys know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Market26 Oct 2026
“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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
9 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Gimnasia y Esgrima were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Germán Pezzella and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Newell's Old Boys training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Solari is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Talleres will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Nicolás Malvacio has pre-agreed a move to Newell's Old Boys, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luca Regiardo and Newell's Old Boys agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jherson Mosquera, and the manager let it.
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Squad19 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 Newell's Old Boys this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Santiago Solari falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Godoy Cruz will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Federico Milo has pre-agreed a move to Newell's Old Boys, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Jerónimo Russo
“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 dugout19 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Agustín Fontana is on it.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Gimnasia y Esgrima next, and one man in the Newell's Old Boys dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market19 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Newell's Old Boys know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match5 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Newell's Old Boys are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Germán Pezzella 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Francesco Lo Celso has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Newell's Old Boys have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match5 Sep 2026
A point taken on 87 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Renzo Saravia
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Martín Ortega slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Martín Ortega is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.