Marked for Rodrigo Granillo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Atlético Tucumán did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Leandro Díaz 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Gianluca Ferrari 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“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.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I watch every Atlético Tucumán game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at River Plate runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Leandro Díaz knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Atlético Tucumán, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlético Tucumán can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Dec 2026
The offer from Lanús for Tomás Durso 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Market28 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Thomas Rearte
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thomas Rearte will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Atlético Tucumán the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Leandro Díaz 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 watch28 Dec 2026
“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 Atlético Tucumán, and 0 appearances in 1 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what River Plate can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Dec 2026
The offer from Defensores for Dilan Gerez 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.
Squad28 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 River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rodrigo Granillo has just signed for River Plate, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Dec 2026
47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Leandro Díaz 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Leandro Díaz gets it from the manager
“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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The name of Gastón Nazar has come up in conversations Atlético Tucumán were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I watch every Atlético Tucumán game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Vitesse runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Javier Domínguez 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luis Ingolotti and Atlético Tucumán agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Leandro Díaz 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 Atlético Tucumán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Atlético Tucumán training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianluca Ferrari 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Luciano Vallejo has his answer from Atlético Tucumán; what he does with it is the next window’s story.