Marked for Agustín Echaide
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
11 shut-outs in 29 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Evaristo Dieguiz has been having a lot of them.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“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.
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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Franco Petroli 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 Lanús, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Agustín Echaide 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Abel Ruiz named player of the week
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Abel Ruiz has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Market15 Nov 2027
Abel Ruiz linked with a move away
The name of Abel Ruiz keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Lanús say nothing, which says plenty.
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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market23 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Panserraikos waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Lanús is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market23 Aug 2027
The name of Nicolás Retamar has come up in conversations Lanús were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match21 Aug 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ramiro Carrera, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ignacio Roldán and Lanús agree another 4 years.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Lanús are still strangers to each other
10 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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Nahuel Losada
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Marcelino Moreno had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market14 Jun 2027
Lanús pay Godoy Cruz $9.6M for a proper upgrade
Godoy Cruz did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $9.6M for Gonzalo Abrego, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Argentinos Juniors; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Dylan Aquino is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
The dugout14 Jun 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio 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.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
Lanús spend $9.6M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $9.6M for Gonzalo Abrego, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Market14 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Leandro Mamut again, and this time the name on the line is Cobreloa. Lanús are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Crisis
Squad26 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match21 Apr 2027
Lanús out of the cup
Morón ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match24 Apr 2027
4 matches without a win for Lanús
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Lanús are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Lanús come up short against Vélez
Vélez left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match24 Apr 2027
Lanús are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes of Agustín Echaide at his very best
Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lanús.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brian Fernández, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Allam Wlk has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lanús they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Besozzi and Lanús agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Yoshan Valois 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. Lanús will try not to make too much of it.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Lanús
11 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 dugout7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.