Alejo Miro

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Patronato
11 Sep 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Alejo Miro

58 Edition

The Patronato Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Facundo Heredia wins it after the whistle should have gone

91 minutes played. Facundo Heredia found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Lanús went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Patronato

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Patronato is running low.

Market

Franco Meritello 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 Patronato can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

An order from above at Patronato: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Squad

Tempers go at Patronato

Gabriel Díaz 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.

Squad

Juan Salas 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.

Match

Patronato get the job done against Lanús

A 1‑0 win over Lanús, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Brandon Cortés

“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.

Squad

Marcos Enrique 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 Patronato, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
56 Edition

The Patronato Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Patronato's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Patronato has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Fernando Moreyra 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 Patronato can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Patronato say no — this time

The offer from Kokand 1912 for Matías Caballero was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Valentin Pereyra 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 Patronato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Patronato training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Pablo Barinaga 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Juan Pablo Barinaga

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

Player ratings

Maximiliano Rueda was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.44. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Market

Madura United watching Alejo Miro

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Patronato have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

Patronato and Vélez take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

55 Edition

The Patronato Chronicle

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Valentin Pereyra 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 Patronato, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

No end in sight to Patronato's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Patronato has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Alan Sosa keeps Patronato in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Gabriel Díaz 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 Patronato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Patronato training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Salas 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Maximiliano Rueda at his very best

Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Patronato.

Squad

No hiding place for Facundo Heredia

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

Match

Honours even between Patronato and Instituto

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

Sogdiana expected to open talks for Matías Caballero

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Patronato will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief