The River Plate Gazette
Market21 Dec 2026
River Plate turn down Uruguay Montevideo for Rodrigo Hernández
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market21 Dec 2026
Nicolás dos Santos has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around River Plate they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Door shut on Samuel Portillo
River Plate asked and Deportivo Riestra said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Alejandro García 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 River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at River Plate training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Rodríguez 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Felipe Chiappini
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
10 new faces, and River Plate are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A loan move for Santiago Beltrán is in the works
River Plate have made the call to River Plate. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody is after Nicolás Schiappacasse’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Nicolás Schiappacasse suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. River Plate have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
In brief
- Market Baltasar Rodríguez arrives on loan
- Market Still no ink between River Plate and Facundo Pereira
- The dugout Nicolás dos Santos knocks on the manager's door