Marked for Milton Cantero
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
An order from above at Talleres: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad2 Nov 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 Talleres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 141% of everything Talleres earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Talleres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eugenio Olivera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abel Masuero, and the manager let it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Mauro Casoli has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Talleres will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market2 Nov 2026
The name of Federico Versaci keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Talleres say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Nicolás Malvacio has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Talleres that is a harder question to answer.
Back issues
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Steady
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Leonel Barrios: 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.” Talleres have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Talleres can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Luciano Zannier did the work nobody counts — 6.95
15 combined actions and 6.95. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Talleres
Eugenio Olivera 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Federico Versaci ran the middle of the pitch — 6.85
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.85, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eugenio Olivera, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Lautaro César
7.63, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Talleres had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Talleres lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Federico Versaci 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
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Talleres
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match26 Sep 2026
Chaco For Ever left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Abel Masuero 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 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Talleres, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Matías Bazzi
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Talleres march on in the cup
Real Pilar are out and Talleres go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match12 Aug 2026
Hernán Taborda wins it after the whistle should have gone
104 minutes played. Hernán Taborda found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Real Pilar went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad17 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Hernán Taborda at 21 — 7.69
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Hernán Taborda did not need any: 7.69, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Talleres
Federico Versaci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Talleres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximiliano Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Matías Samaniego did the work nobody counts — 6.83
12 combined actions and 6.83. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market17 Aug 2026
Spaeri are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Talleres will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
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Match
Morón take the points off Talleres
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Abel Masuero
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The dugout
The view from the dugout