The Gimnasia y Esgrima Sentinel
Market7 Dec 2026
Lautaro Petruchi 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 Gimnasia y Esgrima can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Dec 2026
Lautaro Carrera agrees terms with Talleres
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Gimnasia y Esgrima people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Maximiliano Padilla breaks a bone — 46 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Dec 2026
Estudiantes come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Gimnasia y Esgrima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Gimnasia y Esgrima
Matías Vargas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market7 Dec 2026
Huracán are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Gimnasia y Esgrima will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Juan Franco
“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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
A promise honoured for Santiago Rodríguez
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Gimnasia y Esgrima told Santiago Rodríguez something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Ulises Sánchez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima 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.
In brief
- Squad Julián Ceballos falls out with a teammate over standards
- Squad Franco Saavedra: “I am not a substitute”
- The dugout Ismael Cortez knocks on the manager’s door