Marked for Thiago Perruisset
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Aug 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Aug 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Aug 2028
David Gil has been here 8 seasons
223 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market7 Aug 2028
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Thiago Perruisset is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cádiz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad19 Jun 2028
Louis Schaub gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Louis Schaub has just signed for Cádiz, and for once the answer mattered.
Market19 Jun 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cádiz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Tempers go at Cádiz
Beñat Turrientes 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market19 Jun 2028
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Suso 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
Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Boca Juniors will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Álvaro Montero: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Boca Juniors have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Miguel Merentiel 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Boca Juniors have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 Boca Juniors, and it is not being withdrawn.
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 Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miguel Merentiel, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Boca Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malcom Braida 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.
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Upbeat
Match21 Dec 2026
23 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Boca Juniors may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Dec 2026
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Boca Juniors will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market21 Dec 2026
Los Andes come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Boca Juniors did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market21 Dec 2026
Miguel Ventos has left for Godoy Cruz in a $1.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The offer from Godoy Cruz for Tomás Belmonte 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Javier García
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Javier García will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Boca Juniors the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Javier García has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad14 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 Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Sebastián Villa
“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.
Market14 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Rodrigo Battaglia has his answer from Boca Juniors; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boca Juniors will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Dec 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Agustín Heredia has agreed terms with Defensa y Justicia for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Leandro Paredes 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Boca Juniors is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market7 Dec 2026
The phone has started ringing about Tomás Belmonte again, and this time the name on the line is Godoy Cruz. Boca Juniors are listening politely and promising nothing.