Marked for Lucas Carbone
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Santino Pasini
89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atlanta lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Jan 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlanta can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alejo Dramisino commits to Atlanta for another 3 years.
Squad10 Jan 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 Atlanta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Christian Bernardi 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Tomás Rojas linked with a move away
The name of Tomás Rojas keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Atlanta say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market3 Jan 2028
Nicolás Mosca hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlanta can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces3 Jan 2028
Supporters turn on the $1.6M sale of Federico Bisanz
He is going to Rosario Central, the club has $1.6M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Atlanta have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market3 Jan 2028
Rosario Central pay $1.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
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.
Squad3 Jan 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 Atlanta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Nicolás Mosca 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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Carbone commits to Atlanta for another 3 years.
Market3 Jan 2028
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Crisis
Market12 Jul 2027
Lucas Ríos hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlanta can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Lucas Ríos 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.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
Wages eat 141% of everything Atlanta earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match10 Jul 2027
Maipú left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words at Atlanta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Bernardi 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Tomás Rojas 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Quilmes are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Atlanta will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
“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 Atlanta, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Leonel Galeano 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonel Galeano, and the manager let it.
Market11 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Román Herrera again, and this time the name on the line is Mallorca. Atlanta are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Nicolás Mosca 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Lucas Carbone out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atlanta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Atlanta may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Leonel Galeano 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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Federico Bisanz: 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.” Atlanta have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Lucas Carbone out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atlanta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 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 Atlanta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.