Marked for Thiago Berterame
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match8 May 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 23 matches without defeat is a foundation Argentinos Juniors did not have in the autumn.
Match8 May 2027
12 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 May 2027
Diego Porcel 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 Argentinos Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Looking ahead10 May 2027
Belgrano next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Match8 May 2027
Minute 92, against Huracán, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Mancuello, and the manager let it.
Match8 May 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match1 May 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 22 matches without defeat is a foundation Argentinos Juniors did not have in the autumn.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Argentinos Juniors may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Argentinos Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hernán López Muñoz 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Diego Porcel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout3 May 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.
Squad3 May 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Thiago Berterame and Argentinos Juniors agree another 4 years.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Nicolás Tolosa 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
From our football correspondent
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 Argentinos Juniors people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Dec 2026
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Argentinos Juniors will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Joaquín Gho 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Miguel Acosta 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
The manager has not finished forgetting Joaquín Gho'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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
5 new faces, and Argentinos Juniors are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Steady
Market23 Nov 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 Argentinos Juniors can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Nicolás Oroz 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 Argentinos Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
7 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 Nov 2026
Joaquín Gho is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thiago Berterame was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Kevin Coronel
“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.
Market23 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Matías Giménez Rojas signs something — a contract at Argentinos Juniors or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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 Sebastián Prieto has written the date down.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Argentinos Juniors, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Match24 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Argentinos Juniors did not have in the autumn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Argentinos Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hernán López Muñoz 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Tomás Molina beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match24 Oct 2026
Gimnasia La Plata held the lead for 4 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Argentinos Juniors answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Iván Morales
“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.
Squad26 Oct 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 Argentinos Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
16 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Upbeat
Market19 Oct 2026
“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.
Match19 Oct 2026
Position 2 and 24 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Argentinos Juniors did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thiago Berterame is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Hernán López Muñoz 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Godoy Cruz will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Nahuel Brunet has pre-agreed a move to Argentinos Juniors, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Argentinos Juniors may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nicolás Oroz 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Thiago Berterame 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Francisco Álvarez signs something — a contract at Argentinos Juniors or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Huracán next, and one man in the Argentinos Juniors dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
9 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Argentinos Juniors. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Foggia for Gabriel Florentin 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Diego Porcel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.48 on the card, and the Argentinos Juniors support went home talking about one name.
Market31 Aug 2026
Javier Cabrera is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Argentinos Juniors has been clear about where Javier Cabrera stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Raúl Suárez chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thiago Berterame was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.