Marked for Máximo Leguizamón
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tigre lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joaquín Laso and Tigre agree another 2 years.
The dugout8 Mar 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
0‑1 to Argentinos Juniors, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order Tigre prefer.
The dugout8 Mar 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Nahuel Banegas named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Nahuel Banegas is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 Mar 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 dugout8 Mar 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ricardo Mathias trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad1 Mar 2027
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tigre lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match27 Feb 2027
No mercy from Tigre
Sarmiento will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Tigre were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Ricardo Mathias: 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.” Tigre have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Gonzalo Martínez, 33, rolls back the years — 8.32
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.32 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market1 Mar 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 Tigre, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match27 Feb 2027
Tigre make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tigre have 3 straight wins of it.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Too much change too quickly at Tigre
9 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 dugout1 Mar 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.” José Luis Ramos kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Máximo Leguizamón
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tigre lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market22 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sebastián Medina trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Simón Rivero has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tigre 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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
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 Alan Barrionuevo has written the date down.
Market22 Feb 2027
The Martín Garay story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Martín Garay signs something — a contract at Tigre or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Looking ahead22 Feb 2027
Home comforts ahead for Tigre
Sarmiento, position 14, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
Squad22 Feb 2027
6.75 across the ninety minutes, and a place in the division’s best eleven for it. Nobody who saw the match will argue.