The Defensores Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Defensores sell their best player to Trabzonspor
$6.4M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Facundo Centurión out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Defensores will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Defensores sell a favourite for $6.4M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Jonathan Dellarossa was one of the reasons people came, and $6.4M does not replace that by itself.
Market10 Aug 2026
Defensores say no — this time
The offer from Arsenal Dzerzhinsk for Nicolás Nocetti 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alejandro Medina 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 Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Defensores sell Gonzalo Aquilino for $350.0K
Gonzalo Aquilino has left for Arab Contractors in a $350.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Enzo González stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Enzo González and Defensores agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Patricio Moyano 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Brian Gómez
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Market The clock runs on Juan Monteagudo's contract
- Match Point won or two lost for Defensores?
- Player ratings Agustín Benítez spends the afternoon fouling