Marked for Ignacio Perruzzi
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Rodrigo Auzmendi takes the afternoon — 8.66
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rodrigo Auzmendi provided it, and the 8.66 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Lorenzo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mauricio Cardillo has agreed terms with Gimnasia La Plata for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Gastón Hernández and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Deportivo Riestra, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at San Lorenzo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nahuel Barrios 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market17 Aug 2026
WSG Tirol come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and San Lorenzo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Nahuel Barrios
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nahuel Barrios will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Lorenzo the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Valladolid have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ignacio Perruzzi. The answer from San Lorenzo has not changed — yet.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mathías de Ritis 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gastón Hernández was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Facundo Farías — 7.91
Marked 7.91. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Facundo Farías 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Facundo Farías’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to San Lorenzo.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for San Lorenzo — 7.53
1 for Ignacio Perruzzi, marked 7.53, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Nahuel Arias
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nahuel Arias will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Lorenzo the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Santiago Torres 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nicolás Tripichio and San Lorenzo agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gastón Hernández and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ignacio Perruzzi scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Lanús, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“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 dugout10 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Miguel Ángel Ferrari after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
Betis come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and San Lorenzo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gastón Hernández commits to San Lorenzo for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gastón Hernández 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Facundo Farías was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 3‑1 win over Platense, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Gonzalo Alassia at his very best
Marked 8.35. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at San Lorenzo.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at San Lorenzo
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Miguel Ángel Ferrari on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.