The Belgrano Gazette
Market24 Dec 2029
Terms done: Tiago Cravero is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Talleres waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Belgrano is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market24 Dec 2029
Bryan Reyna has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Belgrano they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market24 Dec 2029
Belgrano say no — this time
The offer from Defensa y Justicia for Leandro Monzón 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.
Market24 Dec 2029
Tiago Cravero puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Belgrano, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Dec 2029
A move Thiago Martínez would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Thiago Martínez is living that version at Belgrano, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets24 Dec 2029
David Fernández turns down Belgrano
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: O'Higgins keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Dec 2029
Nicolás Fernández 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 Belgrano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Dec 2029
Words at Belgrano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrián Sánchez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets24 Dec 2029
Belgrano rebuffed over Thiago De Bellis
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Alavés have kept their man, and Belgrano go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Squad Thiago Martínez stays put
- Transfer targets Belgrano ask about Nicolás Bolcato
- The dugout When it matters, Julián Mavilla plays