Marked for Lisandro González
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Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
River Plate come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Albion did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Albion can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Dec 2026
Albion get their man
The chase for Lisandro González ended with $210.0K changing hands and Colon out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market28 Dec 2026
Terremoto pay $77.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad28 Dec 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 Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 134% of the Albion 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Albion are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad28 Dec 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Albion are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Colon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Colon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Los Halcones waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Colon is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
Supporters turn on the $210.0K sale of Lisandro González
He is going to Albion, the club has $210.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market28 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colon is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Colon
Leandro Méndez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market28 Dec 2026
Albion pay $210.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gimnasia y Tiro have kept their man, and Colon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 159% of the Colon 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.
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Steady
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
The deal with Colon 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Albion is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Felipe Agosto is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Albion
Agustín Vera 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francisco Ginella, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The formation has left Alan Maimo behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Albion will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Agustín Pereira 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Andrés Romero's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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.
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Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Colon people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Colon
Leandro Méndez 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Add another name to the list: Los Halcones have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Agustín de Armas. The answer from Colon has not changed — yet.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Colon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Chopitea 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.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A loan move for Gerónimo Blanco is in the works
Colon have made the call to River Plate. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Colon have made the call to Gimnasia y Tiro. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market21 Dec 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Colon will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Anthony Vilche
“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.