Facundo Basualdo

Defensive Midfielder - Newell's Old Boys
9 Apr 2028
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27 Edition

The Newell's Old Boys Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market1 Feb 2027

Eyes on Ignacio Ramírez again

The phone has started ringing about Ignacio Ramírez again, and this time the name on the line is Zaragoza. Newell's Old Boys are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Newell's Old Boys

Michael Hoyos 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Martín Ortega 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Pablo Altamirano signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pablo Altamirano commits to Newell's Old Boys for another 4 years.

Loan watch1 Feb 2027

Josué Reinatti wants to come home

“I did not go to Sportivo Luqueno to sit and watch. I want to come back to Newell's Old Boys and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Squad1 Feb 2027

The manager makes an example of Alejo Montero

“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.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Newell's Old Boys Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Dec 2026

Luca Regiardo is the young player of the season

Not a month, not a run of form — a whole season of being the best 20-year-old anybody in this division could put on a pitch. This is the honour that gets mentioned for the rest of his career.

Market21 Dec 2026

Newell's Old Boys say no — this time

The offer from Real Santander for Damián Fernández 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.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Valentino Acuña is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.05 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Newell's Old Boys know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Newell's Old Boys

Michael Hoyos 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.

Market21 Dec 2026

Facundo Basualdo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Newell's Old Boys they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market21 Dec 2026

Newell's Old Boys get their man

The chase for Damián Fernández ended with $190.0K changing hands and Rosario Central out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

In brief

3 Edition

The Newell's Old Boys Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Michael Hoyos

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Saúl Salcedo

30 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Newell's Old Boys

Michael Hoyos 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Oscar Salomón

23 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Market17 Aug 2026

Burgos watching Ciro Thompson

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Newell's Old Boys have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Newell's Old Boys training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ian Glavinovich 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Rodrigo Herrera takes the honours

Marked 7.91 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Newell's Old Boys had the best player on the pitch.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Armando Méndez dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Franco García

“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.

In brief