Marked for César Galíndez
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Steady
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
River Plate wanted more than $770.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boston River this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrés Romero and Boston River agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Huracan del Paso have kept their man, and Boston River go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Andrés Romero
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Boston River
7 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Santiago Silva’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market11 Jan 2027
Still no offer on the table, and Federico Dafonte’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Martín González has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Argentinos Juniors waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Belgrano is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Belgrano have gone to Union SG with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market21 Dec 2026
Gimnasia La Plata paid $4.7M and Belgrano took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
The offer went to Unión de Santa Fe this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market21 Dec 2026
The phone has started ringing about Adrián Spörle again, and this time the name on the line is Magallanes. Belgrano are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A move Ramiro Montoya would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ramiro Montoya is living that version at Belgrano, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market21 Dec 2026
César Galíndez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Belgrano they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Dec 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 Belgrano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Belgrano
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lautaro Gutiérrez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Sep 2026
César Galíndez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Belgrano they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Agustín Méndez is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match12 Sep 2026
At last: Belgrano win one
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Sarmiento. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Belgrano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexis Maldonado 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Belgrano, 2‑0 the final word against Sarmiento in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad14 Sep 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 Belgrano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emiliano Rigoni, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Martín Costa on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
César Galíndez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Belgrano they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Belgrano
Franco Vázquez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Belgrano
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexis Maldonado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lisandro López, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Thiago Cardozo
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.