The San Lorenzo Chronicle
Market10 Jan 2028
Terms done: Branco Salinardi is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ponte Preta waiting with a shirt. Nobody at San Lorenzo is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Iván Martín says San Lorenzo went back on their word
“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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Axel Araujo is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Lorenzo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at San Lorenzo
Gastón Hernández 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Ezequiel Herrera signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ezequiel Herrera and San Lorenzo agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Nicolás Tripichio 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Talks stall between San Lorenzo and Nahuel Arias
“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.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Matías Reali gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Matías Reali is on it.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Nahuel Arias 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.
In brief
- The dugout Patricio Céspedes gets it from the manager
- Market Rodrigo Muniz linked with a move away
- Squad José Devecchi has seen what the next man earns