Marked for Ignacio Roldán
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Jan 2028
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Kalamata had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market31 Jan 2028
The Gijón deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Thomás De Martis reports back to Lanús with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Abel Ruiz 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 Lanús this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch31 Jan 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Lanús, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
Tomás Guidara 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 Tomás Guidara is on it.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Nicolás Morgantini 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.
Market31 Jan 2028
The Dylan Aquino talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Lanús know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad31 Jan 2028
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Lanús will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Thomás De Martis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad17 Jan 2028
The knee: Jano Coronel out for 28 days
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Lanús lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market17 Jan 2028
“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.
Boardroom17 Jan 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Lanús
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Lanús is running low.
Market17 Jan 2028
“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.
Market17 Jan 2028
Gonzalo Lobos has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lanús they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market17 Jan 2028
Lanús say no — this time
The offer from PAS Giannina for Brian Fernández 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Alan Franco 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Lanús are still strangers to each other
23 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.
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Uneasy
Market27 Dec 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lanús can pretend not to have heard.
Market27 Dec 2027
Belgrano pay $5.7M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market27 Dec 2027
Lanús say no — this time
The offer from Bolívar for Lucas Gaona 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.
Market27 Dec 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Ignacio Roldán reports back to Lanús with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Tempers go at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Loan watch27 Dec 2027
“I watch every Lanús game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Zamora runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout27 Dec 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The formation has left Alan Franco behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Lanús will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Franco Petroli knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Franco Petroli trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market13 Dec 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Villa Dálmine had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market13 Dec 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market13 Dec 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Lanús have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market13 Dec 2027
Fabrizio Sartori arrives at Lanús in a $4.9M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Lanús have paid $4.9M for Fabrizio Sartori, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Squad13 Dec 2027
The medical room confirms 48 days on the sidelines for Gonzalo Abrego, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad13 Dec 2027
A move Lucas Gaona 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. Lucas Gaona is living that version at Lanús, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Abel Ruiz 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 Lanús this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Words at Lanús training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Morales 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.
Loan watch13 Dec 2027
32 appearances at Excursionistas and the goals have stopped going in. Lanús lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
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Uneasy
Market6 Dec 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets6 Dec 2027
$9.6M on the table at Boca Juniors. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
“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.
Transfer targets6 Dec 2027
The deal with Independiente Rivadavia is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market6 Dec 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 Lanús, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $12.3M — a club that wants Lautaro Di Lollo enough to be asked twice.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio 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.
Loan watch6 Dec 2027
The goals keep arriving from Franco Watson’s exile
16 goals in 28 games at River Plate — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Lanús updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Market6 Dec 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Agustín Cardozo has his answer from Lanús; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Crisis
Market23 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Panserraikos waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Lanús is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market23 Aug 2027
The name of Nicolás Retamar has come up in conversations Lanús were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match21 Aug 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ramiro Carrera, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ignacio Roldán and Lanús agree another 4 years.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Lanús are still strangers to each other
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.
The dugout23 Aug 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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Nahuel Losada
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.