Marked for Maximiliano Lafitte
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.64, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mitre will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Facundo Ledesma: 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.” Mitre have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mitre they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market19 Oct 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.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Gonzalo Córdoba has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad19 Oct 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 Mitre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 21 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Mitre is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mitre may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Mitre
Rodrigo 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sergio Terrazas is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Pablo Minissale 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 dugout12 Oct 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Joaquín Ledesma has his answer from Mitre; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mateo Montenegro’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Mitre needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
The stands have heard the Favio Cabral talk too
What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Mitre would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mitre will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Mitre
Rodrigo González 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Juan Alessandroni 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Chacarita Juniors, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 416% of the Mitre income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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 dugout5 Oct 2026
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 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Hernán Ramos to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mitre will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Mitre
Rodrigo González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Mitre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Alessandroni 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Estudiantes, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market28 Sep 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mateo Montenegro wants continental football; whether Mitre can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcos Machado
“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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Enzo Avaro beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.” Hernán Ramos kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mitre will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 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 Mitre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Mitre
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Minissale was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mitre are still strangers to each other
17 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.49 on the card, and the Mitre support went home talking about one name.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Hernán Ramos chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.97, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.61 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mitre will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Mitre
Rodrigo 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Temperley made Mitre work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match12 Sep 2026
Marcos Machado among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Marcos Machado on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Mitre and Temperley.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Juan Alessandroni 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Alberto Ramírez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mitre will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Gonzalo Córdoba to Dinamo Tbilisi has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Mitre with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Mitre
Rodrigo González 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 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Mitre
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Alessandroni was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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 dugout7 Sep 2026
Tiago Ferreyra knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Tiago Ferreyra trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market7 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Oscar Garrido signs something — a contract at Mitre or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mitre will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Dinamo Tbilisi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Mitre is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market31 Aug 2026
Matías Maluf 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 Mitre can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Mitre
Rodrigo González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 Aug 2026
Enzo Avaro wants European nights
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Pablo Minissale 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Mitre against San Telmo
1‑2 to San Telmo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout31 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.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mitre may not be able to give Oscar Garrido what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Oscar Garrido wants continental football; whether Mitre can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad24 Aug 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 Mitre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Mitre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Alessandroni 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Central Norte made Mitre work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Favio Cabral at his very best
Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Mitre.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Mitre
17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Mitre out
Out, 0‑1 to Güemes, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mitre will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 6 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.06 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Mitre
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Mitre are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Mitre
Rodrigo 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Mitre and Agropecuario Argentino in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Mitre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Alessandroni 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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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad10 Aug 2026
47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Mitre
Rodrigo González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Franco Luna has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jorge Otero has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matías Giménez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Raúl Cohen joins the Mitre first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Raúl Cohen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Mitre against Morón
0‑1 to Morón, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marcos Machado 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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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad3 Aug 2026
508 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Mitre know exactly what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
Matías Maluf 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 Mitre can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Santiago Rosales and Mitre agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Mitre
Rodrigo González 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Godoy Cruz, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pablo Minissale, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.