Marked for Leandro Lescano
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout27 Mar 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Huracán may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Huracán training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Enrique 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Leandro Lescano 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
Lucas Arce is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Huracán has been clear about where Lucas Arce stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emmanuel Ojeda, and the manager let it.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Lucas Arce knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Huracán, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead27 Mar 2028
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Tigre in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Juan Bisanz has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Juan Bisanz has written the date down.
Market27 Mar 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Santiago Luján’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad10 Jan 2028
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Huracán lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market10 Jan 2028
The Lanús deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Leandro Garate reports back to Huracán with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Huracán
Hernán Galíndez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Huracán ran out of time with Patronato. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leandro Lescano commits to Huracán for another 4 years.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Huracán
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guillermo Enrique was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Jan 2028
The phone has started ringing about Aaron Silva again, and this time the name on the line is Maccabi Netanya. Huracán are listening politely and promising nothing.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Martín Soto 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Lucas Arce may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Squad27 Dec 2027
74 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Villa San Carlos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market27 Dec 2027
$1.2M. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.
Market27 Dec 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Villa San Carlos can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
No thanks: Ian Bobadilla rejects the move
Villa San Carlos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Argentinos Juniors, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Leandro Lescano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces27 Dec 2027
Aquiles Mansilla was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $1.2M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Boardroom27 Dec 2027
Estudiantes will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Benjamín Pérez has pre-agreed a move to Villa San Carlos, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Steady
Squad20 Dec 2027
82 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Villa San Carlos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market20 Dec 2027
The unthinkable, invoiced: Martín Campos sold
Racing Club arrived with $2.4M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Market20 Dec 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Villa San Carlos people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match20 Dec 2027
Position 3, 72 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
The terraces20 Dec 2027
Martín Campos has gone, the accounts have $2.4M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Squad20 Dec 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Villa San Carlos had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Transfer targets20 Dec 2027
Everything agreed with Argentinos Juniors, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market20 Dec 2027
The chase for Alejo Navarro ended with $380.0K changing hands and Newell's Old Boys out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kevin Pavía and Villa San Carlos agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad13 Dec 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomás Akimenco
90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Villa San Carlos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market13 Dec 2027
Vélez arrived with $2.2M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Match13 Dec 2027
72 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Market13 Dec 2027
Franco Ojeda hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Villa San Carlos can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces13 Dec 2027
Cristhian Ocampos has gone, the accounts have $2.2M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Transfer targets13 Dec 2027
The deal with Quilmes is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Match11 Dec 2027
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Leandro Lescano 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.
Boardroom13 Dec 2027
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
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Steady
Squad6 Dec 2027
Tomás Akimenco damages knee ligaments — 98 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 98 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match4 Dec 2027
Beaten 2‑5 by San Martín de Burzaco, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market6 Dec 2027
The offer from Independiente for Cristhian Ocampos 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.
Player ratings6 Dec 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.39 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Tomás Basualdo: 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.” Villa San Carlos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market6 Dec 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Villa San Carlos can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets6 Dec 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Villa San Carlos have done the hard part with Ferro Carril Oeste, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Nov 2027
César Ibáñez breaks a bone — 18 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Loan watch22 Nov 2027
The goals keep arriving from Cristian Núñez’s exile
18 goals in 39 games at Fénix — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Huracán updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Juan Bisanz 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Huracán
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Gil was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Ojeda
“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.
Loan watch22 Nov 2027
29 appearances at São Bernardo and the goals have stopped going in. Huracán lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Huracán, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Upbeat
Match22 Nov 2027
68 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Leandro Lescano 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Words at Villa San Carlos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristhian Ocampos 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.
Match20 Nov 2027
A 1‑0 win over Sacachispas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.58 on the card, and the Villa San Carlos support went home talking about one name.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Leonardo Ortiz kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ángel Acosta, and the manager let it.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
11 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Nov 2027
Leandro Lescano 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristhian Ocampos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom15 Nov 2027
Sarmiento will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Santino Cavagna has pre-agreed a move to Villa San Carlos, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market15 Nov 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Cristhian Ocampos’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mauricio Almirón trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match15 Nov 2027
Position 4, 65 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
Market15 Nov 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Upbeat
Match23 Oct 2027
14 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Leandro Lescano 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Cristhian Ocampos 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.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
Wages swallow 108% of the Villa San Carlos income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.63 on the card, and the Villa San Carlos support went home talking about one name.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Giménez, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Leonardo Ortiz after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match23 Oct 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. San Telmo defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Squad11 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Huracán
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Gil was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Leandro Garate
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Joel Godoy 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 Huracán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Huracán, and 3 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
29 appearances at Tristán Suárez and the goals keep coming. Huracán are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Jordy Caicedo gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jordy Caicedo is on it.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“Nobody here treats me like a loan player, and that is worth more than people think.” 15 appearances and 0 goals, and a summer that will decide it.
Market11 Oct 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Santiago Luján signs something — a contract at Huracán or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
24 appearances at São Bernardo and the goals have stopped going in. Huracán lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
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Upbeat
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Villa San Carlos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Cristhian Ocampos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match14 Aug 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Mauricio Almirón ran the middle of the pitch — 7.71
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.71, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Marked 7.87. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Villa San Carlos told Leandro Lescano something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Franco Ojeda 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.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Leonardo Ortiz on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Match9 Jun 2027
Huracán out of the cup
Deportivo Armenio ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market14 Jun 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Huracán people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Huracán can pretend not to have heard.
Match9 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Huracán
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Huracán have gone to Rosario Central with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market14 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Huracán have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Leonardo Gil 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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
62 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Villa San Carlos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market14 Jun 2027
“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 Villa San Carlos, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
Bruno Mariani has gone, the accounts have $970.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Instituto keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
The deal with Huracán is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market14 Jun 2027
Business is business: Bruno Mariani goes
Instituto paid $970.0K and Villa San Carlos took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Villa San Carlos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Villa San Carlos asked and Newell's Old Boys said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kevin Pavía, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
The dugout3 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Huracán may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Up for the corner, and Rodrigo Fernández delivers — 7.96
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Rodrigo Fernández scored, was marked 7.96, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad3 May 2027
Leonardo Gil 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Óscar Romero, and the manager let it.
Match1 May 2027
A goal on 90 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Squad3 May 2027
A falling-out at Huracán
Nahuel Maldonado and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 May 2027
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad3 May 2027
Lucas Arce is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Lucas Arce has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad3 May 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Tahiel Peralta
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Tahiel Peralta has come out of that comparison in the side, and Huracán have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Huracán training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Enrique 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huracán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patricio Pizarro, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Huracán, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
10 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
The offer went to Panathinaikos this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market28 Dec 2026
César Ibáñez hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Huracán can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Dec 2026
Gimnasia La Plata did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $1.3M for Alexis Steimbach, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Market28 Dec 2026
Huracán say no — this time
The offer from Oriental for Leandro Lescano 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Huracán
Hernán Galíndez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Aaron Silva is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Leonardo Gil 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.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Huracán asked and Olympiacos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Huracán training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Gil 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lautaro Mora is the month’s best young player
At 21 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Huracán will try not to make too much of it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Pussetto, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huracán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Jordy Caicedo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Huracán will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Lucas Blondel asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.