The Central Córdoba SdE Sentinel
Market1 Feb 2027
Central Córdoba SdE say no — this time
The offer from Beroe for Omar Bautista Gerez 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tomás Hernández gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tomás Hernández has just signed for Central Córdoba SdE, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Central Córdoba SdE
Lucas González 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Tomás Hernández comes home
The shirt still fits. Tomás Hernández is back at Central Córdoba SdE, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market1 Feb 2027
Kevin Heim is a Central Córdoba SdE player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Central Córdoba SdE
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Horacio Tijanovich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Horacio Tijanovich
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Horacio Tijanovich, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
7 new faces, and Central Córdoba SdE are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market1 Feb 2027
Facundo Mansilla is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Central Córdoba SdE has been clear about where Facundo Mansilla stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- The dugout Marco Iacobellis gets picked when it counts
- Looking ahead Lucas González faces his old club
- The dugout A door opens for Marco Iacobellis