The Banfield Herald
Squad9 Aug 2027
Elías Alderete damages knee ligaments — 92 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 92 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad9 Aug 2027
87 days out for Ignacio Abraham after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Banfield will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Juergen Elitím scores twice — 8.40
Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market9 Aug 2027
Marcos Escobar 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 Banfield can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Brandon Oviedo: 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.” Banfield have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
Banfield to lose Thiago Cano for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Thiago Cano has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Banfield
Santiago Hezze 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Diego Fagúndez falls out with a teammate over standards
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.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Diego Rodríguez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Diego Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match Banfield refuse to lose to Atlético Tucumán
- Match Banfield and Atlético Tucumán take a point apiece
- The dugout Tomás Adoryan asks for a word with the manager