21
Edition
The River Plate Gazette
21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at River Plate
Carlos Rodríguez 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Mathías Rodríguez 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
5 new faces, and River Plate are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Squad When it matters, Rodrigo Hernández plays
- Market The shop window has Juan Manuel Díaz in it
- Market River Plate shop where it costs nothing
- Market River Plate pick up Diogo Cabrera for nothing