Alan Jimenez

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65 Edition

The Deportivo Merlo Herald

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings25 Oct 2027

Vintage Luciano Sánchez — 7.91

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.91, and nobody on the pitch better.

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.

Squad25 Oct 2027

Juan Da Rosa 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 Deportivo Merlo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings25 Oct 2027

A defender's afternoon for Leandro Figueredo

Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Match23 Oct 2027

The drought breaks for Deportivo Merlo

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Villa Dálmine were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Match23 Oct 2027

Deportivo Merlo find a way past Villa Dálmine

Villa Dálmine made Deportivo Merlo work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings25 Oct 2027

Nothing got past Agustín Velasco

17 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.

The dugout25 Oct 2027

Dmitry Pereverzev: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

The dugout25 Oct 2027

No hiding place for Alan Jimenez

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alan Jimenez, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
54 Edition

The Deportivo Merlo Herald

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Franco Benítez

86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Merlo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces9 Aug 2027

Anger at Deportivo Merlo spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Gonzalo Sarsotto breaks a bone — 93 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Cristhian Ocampos signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cristhian Ocampos commits to Deportivo Merlo for another 4 years.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Deportivo Merlo count the cost of losing Nahuel Casasola

50 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Boardroom9 Aug 2027

Deportivo Merlo beat the market to Fabrizio Delgadillo from Ferro Carril Oeste

Ferro Carril Oeste will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Fabrizio Delgadillo has pre-agreed a move to Deportivo Merlo, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

The manager makes an example of Mateo Clemente

“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.

Player ratings9 Aug 2027

Juan Da Rosa 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.

Match7 Aug 2027

Cristhian Ocampos rescues a point for Deportivo Merlo

It needed Cristhian Ocampos to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Excursionistas, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

53 Edition

The Deportivo Merlo Herald

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Franco Benítez

93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Merlo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Mateo Clemente keeps Deportivo Merlo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

Deportivo Merlo spell it out for Dmitry Pereverzev

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Dmitry Pereverzev has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Gonzalo Sarsotto breaks a bone — 100 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 100 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market2 Aug 2027

Alan Jimenez puts it in writing

“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 Deportivo Merlo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

Diego Roberts turns down Deportivo Merlo

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Cristhian Ocampos signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cristhian Ocampos commits to Deportivo Merlo for another 4 years.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

Deportivo Merlo agree a free transfer for Brandon Ríos

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.

The dugout2 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Franco Herrera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Franco Herrera, and the manager let it.

In brief

34 Edition

The Deportivo Merlo Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces22 Mar 2027

The mood at Deportivo Merlo has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market22 Mar 2027

Facundo Aguerre 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 Deportivo Merlo can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

Alan Jimenez: 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.” Deportivo Merlo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad22 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Deportivo Merlo

Cristhian Ocampos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match20 Mar 2027

Comunicaciones take the points off Deportivo Merlo

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Franco Herrera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Franco Herrera, and the manager let it.

Squad22 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Deportivo Merlo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Cabrera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market22 Mar 2027

No place for Diego Cabrera in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Diego Cabrera has his answer from Deportivo Merlo; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Player ratings22 Mar 2027

Gonzalo Valenzuela beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

10 Edition

The Deportivo Merlo Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Both of them Cristhian Ocampos's — 8.72

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.72, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match3 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Deportivo Merlo

7 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.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Alan Jimenez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportivo Merlo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Deportivo Merlo

Cristhian Ocampos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ciro Sineiro 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Deportivo Merlo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Cuenca 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

The decline has begun for Guillermo Ojeda

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Deportivo Merlo is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Match3 Oct 2026

Deportivo Merlo leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

207% of the income goes out in wages at Deportivo Merlo

Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.

In brief