The River Plate Sentinel
Market5 Oct 2026
Thiago Acosta 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 River Plate can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mauro Arambarri in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for River Plate against Huracán
0‑2 to Huracán, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Juan Carlos Portillo 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nobody left the River Plate 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at River Plate
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lautaro Rivero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Thiago Almada named player of the month
The award goes to Thiago Almada, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad5 Oct 2026
12 new faces, and River Plate 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Iván Miranda faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Iván Miranda after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
In brief
- Market No place for Lautaro Rivero in the plan
- Market The Thiago Almada story refuses to die
- The dugout Sebastián Driussi has become a man the manager trusts