Marked for Ezequiel Burdin
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Francisco Couture damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
Albion sell a favourite for $500.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Ezequiel Burdin was one of the reasons people came, and $500.0K does not replace that by itself.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Albion
Sebastián Jaume 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Albion training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Vera 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.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 56 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.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.
Match11 Dec 2026
0‑0 against Flamengo, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad14 Dec 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market14 Dec 2026
The chase for Ezequiel Burdin ended with $500.0K changing hands and Albion out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market14 Dec 2026
The chase for Luca Barreto ended with $220.0K changing hands and La Luz out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Martín Almeida 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 ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Gonzalo Viotti 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.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
$300.0K from Cerro for Andrés Romero. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Francisco Couture damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Cerro come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Albion did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
Albion sell a favourite for $300.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Andrés Romero was one of the reasons people came, and $300.0K does not replace that by itself.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sebastián Jaume and Albion agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 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 Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Albion
Hernán Toledo 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 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ezequiel Burdin commits to Albion for another 5 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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 Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ezequiel Burdin named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ezequiel Burdin is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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.