The Excursionistas Chronicle
Market10 Jan 2028
Gian Zoratti asks to leave Excursionistas
“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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A move Tobías Juárez 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. Tobías Juárez is living that version at Excursionistas, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at Excursionistas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Espeche 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.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Comunicaciones tell Excursionistas: Tomás Rozic is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Excursionistas
Iván Arbello and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Iván Arbello has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Excursionistas 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
This league is too small for Tobías Juárez
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Excursionistas will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market10 Jan 2028
The Mariano Arango talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Excursionistas know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market10 Jan 2028
Excursionistas add cover with Tobías Juárez
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Tobías Juárez is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
In brief
- Market Jerónimo Gutiérrez joins Excursionistas to strengthen the squad
- The dugout The manager makes Francesco Celeste a promise
- The dugout Gonzalo Calabria knocks on the manager's door