Marked for Nicolás Raggio
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Dec 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ferro Carril Oeste is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market31 Dec 2029
Ignacio Soto hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ferro Carril Oeste can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Dec 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ferro Carril Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Dec 2029
Gustavo Canto 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.
Squad31 Dec 2029
“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.
Back issues
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Steady
Market24 Dec 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Francisco Cuzzani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ferro Carril Oeste the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market24 Dec 2029
Homero Sala hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ferro Carril Oeste can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Dec 2029
Mateo Acosta 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 Ferro Carril Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Dec 2029
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad24 Dec 2029
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.
Squad24 Dec 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ferro Carril Oeste, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 Dec 2029
Ferro Carril Oeste have let the market know Nicolás Raggio can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The terraces24 Dec 2029
Supporters make their feelings known about Nicolás Montiel
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Ferro Carril Oeste would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
Market24 Dec 2029
The clock does Ramiro Gatica’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Ferro Carril Oeste could ask drops and the wages Ramiro Gatica can ask rise.
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Steady
Market10 Dec 2029
“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 Ferro Carril Oeste, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Dec 2029
The name of Matías Zubowicz has come up in conversations Ferro Carril Oeste were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Fernando Monetti 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.
Boardroom10 Dec 2029
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Ferro Carril Oeste now.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Words at Ferro Carril Oeste training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Canto 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.
Market10 Dec 2029
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Ferro Carril Oeste will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Upbeat
Market23 Jul 2029
“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 Ferro Carril Oeste, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Mateo Acosta 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 Ferro Carril Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom23 Jul 2029
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Ferro Carril Oeste now.
The terraces23 Jul 2029
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad23 Jul 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valentín Godoy, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Words at Ferro Carril Oeste training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leandro Peña Biafore 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.
Market23 Jul 2029
Ezequiel Rojas is 19, and Ferro Carril Oeste have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad23 Jul 2029
5 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.
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Steady
Match23 Jun 2029
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Racing the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Ferro Carril Oeste will enjoy reviewing.
Market25 Jun 2029
“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.
Market25 Jun 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ferro Carril Oeste is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match23 Jun 2029
12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Boardroom25 Jun 2029
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Ferro Carril Oeste now.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Words at Ferro Carril Oeste training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leandro Peña Biafore 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.
Match23 Jun 2029
A 2‑2 draw with Racing leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad25 Jun 2029
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Apr 2029
“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.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Leandro Peña Biafore 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.
Player ratings2 Apr 2029
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.59 on the card, and the Ferro Carril Oeste support went home talking about one name.
Market2 Apr 2029
No place for Marcelo Miño in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marcelo Miño has his answer from Ferro Carril Oeste; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Fernando Monetti dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Nicolás Raggio named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Nicolás Raggio is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match31 Mar 2029
A 1‑1 draw with Atlanta leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad2 Apr 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ferro Carril Oeste, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market26 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Mateo Acosta 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 Ferro Carril Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Mar 2029
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad26 Mar 2029
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.