The Gimnasia y Esgrima Sentinel
Squad28 Dec 2026
The knee: Nicolás Romano out for 75 days
75 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gimnasia y Esgrima lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad28 Dec 2026
74 days out for Ignacio Sabatini after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gimnasia y Esgrima will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market28 Dec 2026
Diego Mondino asks to leave Gimnasia y Esgrima
“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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Nicolás Linares
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicolás Linares will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gimnasia y Esgrima the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Gimnasia y Esgrima
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezequiel Muñoz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Gimnasia y Esgrima
Matías Muñoz 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
A season away well spent by Tomás O'Connor
16 games, 4 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Gimnasia y Esgrima now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Franco Saavedra 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Juan Franco knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gimnasia y Esgrima, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market The Agustín Módica question follows Gimnasia y Esgrima around
- The dugout Santiago Rodríguez has been promised minutes
- The dugout The manager comes out for Benjamín Borruel