The San Martín Sentinel
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Cristian Ibáñez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Cristian Ibáñez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Martín the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at San Martín
Santiago Briñone 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Time is catching up with Nicolás Castro
Everybody at San Martín saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Facundo Pons 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Gonzalo Rodríguez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gonzalo Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
Tiago Peñalba has seen enough of Hertha Wels
“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 San Martín, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Santiago Briñone 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Rodrigo Ayala has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Martín 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Diego Diellos faces his old club
Güemes next, and one man in the San Martín dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- Squad Carlos Torres wants out of the dugout
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Güemes
- Loan watch Marcos López has made Alavés’s shirt his own