The Flandria Sentinel
Squad29 Mar 2027
The knee: Tomás Martínez out for 39 days
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Flandria lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Máximo Chan: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Flandria have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Flandria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martín López 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Federico Real is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Flandria
Franco Costa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Lucas Giménez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Giménez, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Facundo Ruiz knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Matías Donato story refuses to die
- The dugout A door opens for Tomás Sives
- Looking ahead Flandria travel to Liniers