The Talleres Herald
Match12 Aug 2028
6 matches without a win for Talleres
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Talleres are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Aug 2028
Emilio Suárez is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Talleres is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
Emilio Suárez signs for Racing Club while still at Talleres
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Emilio Suárez has agreed terms with Racing Club for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Talleres
Joaquín Blázquez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Diego Valoyes 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.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Gabriel Báez
“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.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Diego Valoyes has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Talleres 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.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Diego Valoyes asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Match12 Aug 2028
Facundo Castro rescues a point for Talleres
It needed Facundo Castro to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Defensa y Justicia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Diego Barrera
- Market Facundo Valdez told to find a new club
- Player ratings Martín Río was unplayable