Marked for Thiago Perugini
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match13 Sep 2027
32 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match11 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Excursionistas's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Excursionistas has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad13 Sep 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 Excursionistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Excursionistas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Altuna 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 dugout13 Sep 2027
Israel Coll gets it from the manager
“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.
Match11 Sep 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Lucas Villarruel 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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match21 Aug 2027
A 0‑4 beating by Real Pilar was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match21 Aug 2027
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Excursionistas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Espeche 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 dugout23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Thiago Perugini
“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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Nobody left the Excursionistas dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑4 defeat, delivered by Andrés Pereyra to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Juan Pablo Rodríguez's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A mark of 4.20 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Crisis
Squad19 Jul 2027
Leandro Quiroz damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market19 Jul 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 Excursionistas can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Excursionistas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match17 Jul 2027
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Excursionistas are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Excursionistas have done the hard part with Boca Juniors, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad19 Jul 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 Excursionistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Alan Espeche 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.
The dugout19 Jul 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.
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Uneasy
Market28 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 Excursionistas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alan Espeche was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Almirante Brown: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan move for Enzo Taborda is in the works
Excursionistas have made the call to Independiente. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Boca Juniors: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout28 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.
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Uneasy
Match19 Jun 2027
Lucas Villarruel wins it after the whistle should have gone
93 minutes played. Lucas Villarruel found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and San Telmo went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Excursionistas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Lucas Villarruel, 37, rolls back the years — 8.04
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market21 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 Excursionistas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market21 Jun 2027
Newell's Old Boys paid $3.0M and Excursionistas took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad21 Jun 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 Excursionistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Excursionistas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Espeche 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Excursionistas asked and Acassuso said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Steady
Market7 Jun 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.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Excursionistas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
The paperwork begins on Lucas Rey
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Excursionistas have done the hard part with Acassuso, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Match5 Jun 2027
No end in sight to Excursionistas's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Excursionistas has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alan Espeche was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. San Lorenzo have kept their man, and Excursionistas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Ninety minutes of Alan Espeche at his very best
Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Excursionistas.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Evaristo Dieguiz is the division's best young player this month
At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Excursionistas will try very hard not to make too much of it.
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Crisis
Squad31 May 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Excursionistas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Espeche 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.
Match29 May 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout31 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Horacio Igarzábal, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 May 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout31 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lucas Villarruel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout31 May 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings31 May 2027
6 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Market31 May 2027
The name of Alan Espeche keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Excursionistas say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad24 May 2027
Lucas Villarruel 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.
Player ratings24 May 2027
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Horacio Igarzábal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match22 May 2027
Late, late show earns Excursionistas a point
Minute 89, against Sportivo Italiano, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad24 May 2027
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout24 May 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.
Match22 May 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout24 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lucas Villarruel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout24 May 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Andrés Pereyra after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Steady
Squad17 May 2027
Leandro Quiroz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at Excursionistas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Espeche 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.
Boardroom17 May 2027
100% of the income goes out in wages at Excursionistas
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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
The afternoon belonged to Alan Espeche
A mark of 7.34, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Israel Coll
“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 dugout17 May 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout17 May 2027
Thiago Perugini 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Matías Blengio
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Squad17 May 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Excursionistas lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
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Upbeat
Market10 May 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 May 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Alan Espeche 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.
The dugout10 May 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Andrés Pereyra kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout10 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Thiago Perugini trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout10 May 2027
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Thiago Perugini scored one and made one — 7.92
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.92, and 2 involvements.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Thiago Perugini’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Excursionistas.
The terraces12 Apr 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Thiago Perugini has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Federico Haberkorn was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.30. 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Horacio Igarzábal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Tellas, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Excursionistas will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andrés Pereyra on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Squad15 Mar 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alan Espeche was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lautaro Piola, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Andrés Pereyra after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Excursionistas are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The plan did not have a place for Thiago Perugini
Nobody at Excursionistas is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. 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.
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Crisis
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Lautaro Piola: 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.” Excursionistas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Lucas Villarruel 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Excursionistas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Wysocki 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 dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Haberkorn, and the manager let it.
Match27 Feb 2027
Ferrocarril Midland left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Andrés Pereyra after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Excursionistas will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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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Steady
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Excursionistas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
An order from above at Excursionistas: 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Excursionistas
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Matías Wysocki 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benicio Romano has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Thiago Perugini
“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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lucas Villarruel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Excursionistas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Excursionistas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Excursionistas have done the hard part with River Plate, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mariano Arango 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Leandro Quiroz 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout4 Jan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Excursionistas will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market4 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alan Espeche’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” San Lorenzo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market7 Dec 2026
The bid was some way short and San Lorenzo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thiago Perugini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Lorenzo the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Gastón Hernández 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at San Lorenzo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Farías 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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“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 San Lorenzo, and 4 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” José Devecchi commits to San Lorenzo for another 3 years.
Market7 Dec 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Daniel Herrera has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at San Lorenzo.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Excursionistas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 119 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Matías Blengio: 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.” Excursionistas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Oct 2026
“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 Excursionistas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mariano Arango 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Thiago Perugini has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Excursionistas have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Excursionistas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel López 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Excursionistas
Franco Flores arrives at 39 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market12 Oct 2026
At 35, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Lorenzo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” San Lorenzo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Thiago Perugini has agreed terms with Excursionistas for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gustavo Del Prete and San Lorenzo agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gastón Hernández 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nahuel Arias is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nahuel Barrios 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“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 San Lorenzo, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Nahuel Arias
“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.