Marked for Alejo Sperdutti
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Alexis Alégué 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Juliano
“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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Federico Milo out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Godoy Cruz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Jan 2027
269 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Lucas Arce 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Franco Toloza and Godoy Cruz agree another 3 years.
Market4 Jan 2027
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Santiago Sandoval arrives from Guadalajara with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Market4 Jan 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Alejo Sperdutti leaves Godoy Cruz the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Crisis
Market4 Jan 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 Jablonec can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market4 Jan 2027
Jihlava come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Jablonec did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A move Alejo Sperdutti 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. Alejo Sperdutti is living that version at Jablonec, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Alexis Alégué 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nemanja Tekijaški, and the manager let it.
Match2 Jan 2027
Pribram left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market4 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Matěj Polidar again, and this time the name on the line is Jihlava. Jablonec are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Steady
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Mathematically certain, and nobody in this town is going to bed early. Whatever else happened this season, it finishes a division above where it started.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Federico Milo breaks a bone — 46 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Juan Ignacio Barbieri has just signed for Godoy Cruz, and for once the answer mattered.
Market21 Dec 2026
Godoy Cruz spend $990.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $990.0K has been paid because Juan Ignacio Barbieri is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Market21 Dec 2026
Nahuel Ulariaga wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Godoy Cruz hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alejo Sperdutti has agreed terms with Aldosivi for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market21 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done: Nicolás Villagra joins from All Boys in a deal worth $230.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Lucas Arce 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.