The Almirante Brown Gazette
Market24 May 2027
Santiago Vera 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 The request is on a desk at Almirante Brown, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Nobody could get near Gastón Moreyra
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 May 2027
Leonardo Jara 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 Almirante Brown this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Almirante Brown training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Quignón 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 terraces24 May 2027
The crowd has taken to Carlos Gugenheim
At 22 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.
Match22 May 2027
Almirante Brown find a way past Nueva Chicago
Nueva Chicago made Almirante Brown work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom24 May 2027
Wages eat 106% of everything Almirante Brown earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Carlos Gugenheim takes the honours
Marked 7.90 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Almirante Brown had the best player on the pitch.
Squad24 May 2027
Tomás Villoldo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Squad Ramón González knocks on the manager's door
- Market Alen Boschi placed on the list