Marked for Marcos Escobar
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Dec 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Banfield may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market13 Dec 2027
“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.
Market13 Dec 2027
Banfield say no — this time
The offer from Gimnasia y Esgrima for Cristian Jiménez Osuna 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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch13 Dec 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Banfield, and 5 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.
Loan watch13 Dec 2027
The goals keep arriving from Tiziano Perrotta’s exile
9 goals in 26 games at Molde — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Banfield updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch13 Dec 2027
The goals keep arriving from Rodrigo Auzmendi’s exile
7 goals in 27 games at San Lorenzo — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Banfield updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Market13 Dec 2027
Banfield bring in an old head
Gastón Campi is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market13 Dec 2027
Banfield have made Nicolás Colazo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
Favio Álvarez 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Beaten 2‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Meriano
“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 ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Banfield can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 51 days on the sidelines for Juan Luis Alfaro, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcos Escobar commits to Banfield for another 4 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Neyder Moreno
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Facundo Sanguinetti’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bruno Sepúlveda and Banfield agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Barracas Central leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ignacio Abraham trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Banfield, another week without a signature from Gino Santilli.