Marked for Alan Salas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match10 May 2027
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad10 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at San Lorenzo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Facundo Farías 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alan Salas and San Lorenzo agree another 4 years.
The dugout10 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market10 May 2027
Guzmán Corujo is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at San Lorenzo has been clear about where Guzmán Corujo stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout10 May 2027
Martín Río 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.
Market10 May 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Loan watch10 May 2027
11 appearances at Barracas Central and the goals keep coming. San Lorenzo are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Crisis
Match1 May 2027
12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market3 May 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 The request is on a desk at San Lorenzo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 May 2027
Gastón Hernández and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at San Lorenzo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Farías 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.
Squad3 May 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and San Lorenzo know it.
Match1 May 2027
1‑2 to Independiente, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I watch every San Lorenzo game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Estudiantes runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Herrera, and the manager let it.
Squad3 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alan Salas commits to San Lorenzo for another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
Gastón Hernández 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at San Lorenzo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Farías 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Uriel Ojeda commits to San Lorenzo for another 5 years.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Franco Lorenzón
“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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The division's best last weekend was a San Lorenzo man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Rodrigo Auzmendi was the best thing in any of them.
The dugout29 Mar 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Daniel Herrera knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Daniel Herrera trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Alan Salas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Lorenzo 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.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
The goals keep arriving from Branco Salinardi’s exile
5 goals in 9 games at Estudiantes de Merida — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at San Lorenzo updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Gastón Hernández 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
Facundo Farías 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad1 Feb 2027
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
When it matters, Alan Salas plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at San Lorenzo would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at San Lorenzo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around San Lorenzo people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market11 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. San Lorenzo will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at San Lorenzo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Farías 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
José Devecchi 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustavo Del Prete, and the manager let it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Manuel Insaurralde is on it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Gonzalo Alassia is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market11 Jan 2027
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market11 Jan 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at San Lorenzo, another week without a signature from Bautista Hernández.
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer from Independiente for Gastón Hernández 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gastón Hernández 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. San Lorenzo have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Manuel Insaurralde and San Lorenzo agree another 3 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; San Lorenzo are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at San Lorenzo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nahuel Barrios 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Alexis Cuello keeps appearing in other people's back pages. San Lorenzo say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Alan Salas gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alan Salas is on it.
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Steady
Market7 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Chaco For Ever waiting with a shirt. Nobody at San Lorenzo is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market7 Dec 2026
Cerro Largo come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and San Lorenzo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Lorenzo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Gastón Hernández 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Nicolás Tripichio 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” José Devecchi commits to San Lorenzo for another 3 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“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.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Quilmes are out and San Lorenzo go through, 5‑3 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Lucas Juárez could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.69
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.69, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Alan Salas, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.84
A mark of 8.84 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
Morelia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and San Lorenzo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Lorenzo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mauricio Cardillo has agreed terms with Independiente for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad24 Aug 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 San Lorenzo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Aug 2026
Lucas Juárez among the goals in a wild afternoon
8 goals in one match, Lucas Juárez on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of San Lorenzo and Quilmes.