Marked for Daniel Ribera
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Talleres
José Luis Palomino and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Talleres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Catalán 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Santino Barbi and Talleres agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Mauro Ortiz
“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 dugout12 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 Valentín Depietri is on it.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Talleres could get for him.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Ulises Ortegoza’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Talleres needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Talleres they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ulises Ortegoza 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.
Squad7 Sep 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 Talleres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Federico Fattori has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Santino Barbi named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Santino Barbi is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Gabriel Báez gets picked when it counts
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 Gabriel Báez is on it.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
San Martín ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Talleres say no — this time
The offer from Iraklis for Valentín Dávila 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Talleres
José Luis Palomino 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Boca Juniors left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Talleres have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Talleres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulises Ortegoza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
From twelve yards, and Gabriel Báez misses
A penalty is the one moment in football with nowhere to hide, and he did not score it. The walk back was long and the week will be longer.